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Flindermouse
Flindermouse Flin"der*mouse`, n.[OE. vlindre moth (cf. D. vlinder butterfly) + E. mouse. Cf. Flittermouse, Flinders.] (Zo["o]l.) A bat; a flittermouse.
flindermouse
Flittermouse Flit"ter*mouse`, n. [Flitter, v.i. + mouse; cf. G. fledermaus, OHG. fledarm[=u]s. Cf. Flickermouse, Flindermouse.] (Zo["o]l.) A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
Flinders
Flinders Flin"ders, n. pl. [Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces.] Small pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. --Sir W. Scott.
Flindersia maculosa
Spotted Spot"ted, a. Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. ``The spotted panther.' --Spenser. Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.
Flindersia Oxleyana
Yellowwood Yel"low*wood`, n. (Bot.) The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.

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- Look up Flinders or flinders in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flinders may refer to: Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula Flinders...
- Flinders Street, named after explorer Matthew Flinders, may refer to: Flinders Street, Adelaide Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street railway station...
- Flinder Boyd (born 12 February 1980) is a retired British basketball player born in California to British parents. Boyd pla**** college basketball at Dartmouth...
- Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first ins**** cir****navigation...
- There are two Australian highways called the Flinders Highway. Flinders Highway, South Australia Flinders Highway, Queensland This disambiguation page...
- The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division is one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal...
- Dr. Flinder Anderson Khonglam (6 February 1945 – 22 May 2012) was an Indian politician and physician. He served as the eighth Chief Minister of Meghalaya...
- Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a 1,367-square-kilometre (528 sq mi) island in the B**** Strait, northeast of the island of...
- A Flinders bar is a vertical soft iron bar placed in a tube on the fore side of a comp**** binnacle. The Flinders bar is used to counteract the vertical...
- Flinders is a seaside town on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 73 km (45 mi) south of Melbourne's Central Business District...