“man's”

The following 22 entries include the term man's.

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dead man's float

noun

: a prone floating position with the arms extended forward

man's man

noun

: a man noted or admired for traditionally masculine interests and activities

no-man's-land

noun

: an area of unowned, unclaimed, or uninhabited land

old-man's beard

noun

: any of several clematises (especially Clematis vitalba) having plumose styles

white man's burden

noun

: a duty formerly asserted by white people to manage the affairs of nonwhite people whom they believed to be less developed

bloody man's fingers

noun plural but singular or plural in construction

dead man's eye

noun

: any of several European orchids (genus Orchis) having pale digitate roots (especially O. mascula, O. maculata, O. latifolia, and O. morio)

man's motherwort

noun

old-man's-flannel

noun

old-man's-pepper

noun

: yarrow

old-man's-root

noun

: the American spikenard (Aralia racemosa)

poor man's cabbage

noun

: a winter cress (Barbarea verna)

poor man's mustard

noun

poor man's orchid

noun
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