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Virginia stock   /vərdʒˈɪnjə stɑk/   Listen
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Virginia  n.  One of the States of the United States of America.
Virginia cowslip (Bot.), the American lungwort (Mertensia Virginica).
Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; called also woodbine, and American ivy. (U. S.)
Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence.
Virginia nightingale (Zool.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal.
Virginia quail (Zool.), the bobwhite.
Virginia reel, an old English contradance; so called in the United States.
Virginia stock. (Bot.) See Mahon stock.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... exists in the old Franco-Spanish-Afro-Italian-American city of New Orleans, there would seem to be nothing left to be desired as "material." The artist who seized instinctively this opportunity was born at New Orleans on October 12th, 1844, of colonial Virginia stock on the one side, and New England on the other. His early life was full of vicissitudes, and he was over thirty before he discovered story-telling to be his true vocation. From that time he has diligently followed it, having published three ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various



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