“miner's”

The following 5 entries include the term miner's.

miner's lettuce

noun

: a glossy green herb (Montia perfoliata synonym Claytonia perfoliata) of the purslane family especially of western North America that produces racemes of pink to white flowers subtended by a disk of two leaves united around the stem and is used as a salad green

miner's inch

noun

: a unit of water flow that varies with locality

miner's right

noun

: a license given to Australian miners to explore for and extract a mineral (as gold)

miner's tent

noun

: a usually triangular tent that is suspended from a tree or set up with one center pole

miner's worm

noun

: the hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale) that often infests miners and tunnel workers


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