| americana | (n) any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America |
| wynnea americana | (n) a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears; the sterile surface is dark brown and warty; the fertile surface is smooth and pinkish orange |
| american agave | (n) widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies, Syn. Agave americana |
| american basswood | (n) large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown, Syn. American lime, Tilia americana |
| american beech | (n) North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts, Syn. Fagus americana, white beech, red beech, Fagus grandifolia |
| american bugbane | (n) bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers, Syn. Cimicifuga americana, summer cohosh |
| american cockroach | (n) large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed, Syn. Periplaneta americana |
| american coot | (n) a coot found in North America, Syn. water hen, mud hen, Fulica americana, marsh hen |
| american elm | (n) large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America, Syn. rock elm, white elm, water elm, Ulmus americana |
| american hazel | (n) nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America, Syn. Corylus americana |
| american marten | (n) valued for its fur, Syn. American sable, Martes americana |
| american mountain ash | (n) a variety of mountain ash, Syn. Sorbus americana |
| american parasol | (n) an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base, Syn. Lepiota americana |
| american red plum | (n) wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh, Syn. goose plum, August plum, Prunus americana |
| american twinflower | (n) similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia, Syn. Linnaea borealis americana |
| american widgeon | (n) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown, Syn. Anas americana, baldpate |
| avocado | (n) tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits, Syn. Persea Americana, avocado tree |
| basket flower | (n) annual of southwestern United States cultivated for its purple flower heads and its bracts that resemble small baskets, Syn. Centaurea americana |
| brooklime | (n) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers, Syn. Veronica americana, American brooklime |
| brown creeper | (n) a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill, Syn. American creeper, Certhia americana |
| false wintergreen | (n) evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers, Syn. Pyrola americana, Pyrola rotundifolia americana |
| genipap fruit | (n) tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit, Syn. Genipa Americana, marmalade box, jagua |
| groundnut | (n) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans, Syn. Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, wild bean, potato bean, Indian potato, groundnut vine |
| lady-of-the-night | (n) West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers, Syn. Brunfelsia americana |
| mammee apple | (n) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind, Syn. Mammea americana, mamey, mammee, mammee tree |
| mucocutaneous leishmaniasis | (n) a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa, Syn. American leishmaniasis, New World leishmaniasis, leishmaniasis americana, nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis |
| parula warbler | (n) small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast; of eastern North America, Syn. northern parula, Parula americana |
| poke | (n) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous, Syn. scoke, pigeon berry, Phytolacca americana, garget |
| pronghorn | (n) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns, Syn. Antilocapra americana, prongbuck, American antelope, pronghorn antelope |
| redhead | (n) North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head, Syn. Aythya americana |
| rhea | (n) larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia, Syn. Rhea americana |
| rock geranium | (n) plant with basal leaves mottled with white and flowers in lax panicles on erect stems, Syn. Heuchera americana |
| surinam toad | (n) a South American toad; incubates its young in pits in the skin of its back, Syn. Pipa americana, Pipa pipa |
| tall bellflower | (n) annual or perennial of eastern North America with long spikes of blue or white flowers, Syn. Campanula americana |
| tent-caterpillar moth | (n) moth whose larvae are tent caterpillars, Syn. Malacosoma americana |
| white ash | (n) spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood, Syn. Fraxinus Americana |
| white perch | (n) small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams, Syn. silver perch, Morone americana |
| whooping crane | (n) rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call, Syn. whooper, Grus americana |
| wood ibis | (n) an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics, Syn. wood stork, Mycteria americana, flinthead |
