- Element Al - Most abundant metal element in the Earth's crust - The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but
with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation,
and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic
weight 27.08. Symbol Al.
- A thin, flying cloud; a rack. - To rack; to torment. - Wreck; ruin; destruction. - Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially
plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most
abundant on northern shores. - Coarse seaweed of any kind. - To wreck.
- a long slimy creature that lives in dirt and has no bones - Common annelid - Natural soil aerator - Soil-enriching creature - Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found
in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe
and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also
angleworm and dewworm. - A mean, sordid person; a niggard.
- A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
(Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food
fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack,
skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel.
Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.