young
1: (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" [syn: {immature}] [ant: {old}] 2: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of developmen...
young buck
1: an adolescent male [syn: {young man}]
young carnivore
1: the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion [syn: {cub}]
young girl
1: a girl or young woman who is unmarried [syn: {lass}, {lassie}, {jeune fille}]
young lady
1: a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: {girl}, {miss}, {missy}, {young woman}, {fille}]
young man
1: an adolescent male [syn: {young buck}] 2: a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" [syn: {boyfriend}, {fellow}, {beau}, {swain}]
young person
1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: {youth}, {younker}, {spring chicken}]
Young Turk
1: a member of one or more of the insurgetn groups in Turkey in the late 19th century who rebelled against the absolutism of Ottoman rule 2: a young radical who agitates for reform
young woman
1: a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: {girl}, {miss}, {missy}, {young lady}, {fille}]
Young's modulus
1: a coefficient of elasticity applicable to the stretching of a wire
young-bearing
1: capable of producing eggs and bearing offspring [syn: {egg-producing(a)}, {young-bearing(a)}]
young-begetting
1: capable of fathering offspring [syn: {young-begetting(a)}]
youngness
1: the opposite of oldness [ant: {oldness}]
youngster
1: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters" [syn: {child}, {kid}, {minor}, {shaver}, {nipper}, {small fry}, {tid...
younker
1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: {young person}, {youth}, {spring chicken}]
youth
1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: {young person}, {younker}, {spring chicken}] 2: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt"...
youth crusade
1: political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people [syn: {youth movement}]
youth culture
1: young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture
youth hostel
1: inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) [syn: {hostel}, {student lodging}]
youth movement
1: political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people [syn: {youth crusade}]
youth subculture
1: a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre
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youth-on-age
1: vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk [syn: {pickaback plant}, {piggyback plant}, {Tolmiea menziesi...
youthful
1: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh [syn: {vernal}]
youthfully
1: in a youthful manner; "he is still youthfully enthusiastic"
youthfulness
1: the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person [syn: {youth}, {juvenility}]
yowl
1: a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" [syn: {bellow}, {bellowing}, {holla}, {holler}, {hollering}, {hollo}, {holloa}, {roar}, {roaring}] v 1: cry loud...
Ypres
1: battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the All...
Yquem
1: a sweet white French wine
yr
1: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" [syn: {year}, {twelvemonth}]
ytterbite
1: a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium [syn: {gadolinite}]
ytterbium
1: a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime [syn: {Yb}, {atomic number 70}]
yttrium
1: a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys [syn: {Y}, {atomic number 39}]
yuan
1: the basic unit of money in China [syn: {kwai}] 2: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: {Yuan dynasty}, {Mongol dynasty}]
Yuan dynasty
1: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: {Yuan}, {Mongol dynasty}]
Yucatan
1: a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea [syn: {Yucatan Peninsula}]
Yucatan Peninsula
1: a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea [syn: {Yucatan}]
Yucatec
1: a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico [syn: {Yucateco}] 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec people [syn: {Yucateco}]
Yucateco
1: a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico [syn: {Yucatec}] 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec people [syn: {Yucatec}]
yucca
1: any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America
Yucca aloifolia
1: a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers [syn: {Spanish bayonet}]
Yucca baccata
1: tall woody-stemmed yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico having stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers [syn: {Spanish bayonet}]
Yucca brevifolia
1: a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers [syn: {Joshua tree}]
Yucca carnerosana
1: arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers [syn: {Spanish dagger}]
Yucca elata
1: tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States [syn: {soapweed}, {soap-weed}, {soap tree}]
Yucca filamentosa
1: yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages [syn: {Adam's needle}, {Adam's needle-and-thread}, {spoonleaf yucca}, {needle palm}]
Yucca glauca
1: yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers [syn: {bear grass}]
Yucca gloriosa
1: yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves [syn: {Spanish dagger}]
Yucca smalliana
1: yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers [syn: {bear grass}]
Yucca whipplei
1: yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers [syn: {Our Lord's candle}]
yucky
1: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench...
Yue
1: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China [syn: {Yue dialect}, {Cantonese}, {Cantonese dialect}]
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