| wallace | (n) Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305), Syn. Sir William Wallace |
| wallace | (n) English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932), Syn. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, Edgar Wallace |
| wallace | (n) English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913), Syn. Alfred Russel Wallace |
| carothers | (n) United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937), Syn. Wallace Hume Carothers, Wallace Carothers |
| stevens | (n) United States poet (1879-1955), Syn. Wallace Stevens |
| woolly daisy | (n) tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum, Syn. Eriophyllum wallacei, Antheropeas wallacei, dwarf daisy |