| acid |
a chemical substance that dissolves in water, has a sour taste, and turns blue litmus paper red. [1/4 definitions] |
| anemone |
a type of plant related to the buttercup that has large white, blue, purple, or red flowers. |
| aqua |
the color that comes from mixing blue, green, and a small amount of white paint. |
| aster |
a plant with white, pink, blue, or purple flowers. The flowers are made up of many narrow petals around a yellow center. |
| azure |
the color of a clear blue sky. [1/2 definitions] |
| blue |
having the color blue. [1/3 definitions] |
| blueberry |
a small round berry that is blue in color and can be eaten. [1/2 definitions] |
| bluebird |
a small, blue North American songbird. Males usually have a reddish breast. |
| bluefish |
a fish that lives in mild Atlantic waters of the North and South American coast. Bluefish are blue and are caught for sport or food. |
| bluegrass |
a grass with a blue-green color that is grown in pastures and on lawns. Kentucky is famous for bluegrass. [1/2 definitions] |
| blue jay |
a common jay bird of eastern North America. A blue jay has a crest on its head and a bright blue upper body with white and black markings on its wings and tail. |
| blueprint |
a print of a drawing that shows a building plan. Blueprints usually have white lines on a blue background. [1/2 definitions] |
| blue whale |
a mammal that lives in the ocean. Blue whales are the largest kind of animal that has ever lived. They can grow up to 100 feet long and weigh up to 150 tons. Their large mouths have baleen instead of teeth. Blue whales use baleen to filter lots of very small food such as shrimp from ocean water. |
| bruise |
an injury that does not cause a break in the skin or bone but usually causes a dark blue or purple mark to appear on the skin. [1/3 definitions] |
| Bunsen burner |
a burner that has holes at the bottom where air enters, mixes with gas, and makes a hot blue flame. Bunsen burners are used in laboratory experiments. |
| cheerful |
When someone is cheerful, they are happy and other people can see that they are. When people are cheerful, they often smile, act very friendly, whistle, or sing a little to themselves. A sunny day with a bright blue sky makes many people cheerful. [1/2 definitions] |
| color |
a quality of light as our eyes see it. Light is made up of waves, which hit objects and are reflected from their surfaces. The colors we see, such as red, blue, and yellow, depend on how these light waves are reflected. Objects of different colors reflect different kinds of light waves. [1/5 definitions] |
| dark |
Black and brown are called dark colors. The opposite of a dark color is a color like white or yellow. If you are wearing a dark jacket, it is probably black, brown, or maybe blue. [2/6 definitions] |
| dungaree |
a heavy cotton fabric; blue denim. [2/3 definitions] |
| eyeball |
An eyeball is the part of an eye that is shaped like a ball. The front of an eyeball is white with a round area of color, such a brown, green, or blue, in the middle. Inside that round area is also a round black hole that is like an open window into the eye. That "window" lets light come into your eye so that you can see. |
| flax |
a plant with tiny blue flowers and with seeds from which an oil is pressed. [1/2 definitions] |