| douglas | (n) United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861), Syn. Stephen A. Douglas, Little Giant, Stephen Arnold Douglas |
| douglas fir | (n) strong durable timber of a douglas fir |
| douglas fir | (n) tall evergreen timber tree of western North America having resinous wood and short needles |
| douglass | (n) United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895), Syn. Frederick Douglass |
| green douglas fir | (n) lofty douglas fir of northwestern North America having short needles and egg-shaped cones, Syn. Oregon pine, Oregon fir, douglas hemlock, douglas pine, douglas spruce, Pseudotsuga menziesii |
| adrian | (n) English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997), Syn. Baron Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian |
| big-cone spruce | (n) douglas fir of California having cones 4-8 inches long, Syn. big-cone douglas fir, Pseudotsuga macrocarpa |
| bradbury | (n) United States writer of science fiction (born 1920), Syn. Ray Bradbury, Ray Douglas Bradbury |
| chickeree | (n) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel, Syn. Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
| cockcroft | (n) British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in 1931) first split an atom (1897-1967), Syn. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Sir John Cockcroft |
| fairbanks | (n) United States film actor; son of Douglas Elton Fairbanks, (1909-2000), Syn. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
| fairbanks | (n) United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939), Syn. Douglas Fairbanks, Julius Ullman, Douglas Elton Fairbanks |
| leakey | (n) English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1, 750, 000 years old (1913-1996), Syn. Mary Douglas Leakey, Mary Leakey |
| macarthur | (n) United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964), Syn. Douglas MacArthur |
| moore | (n) United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969), Syn. Douglas Moore |
| morrison | (n) United States rock singer (1943-1971), Syn. Jim Morrison, James Douglas Morrison |
| northern dune tansy | (n) lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America, Syn. Tanacetum douglasii |
| purple cress | (n) small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers, Syn. Cardamine douglasii |
| smith | (n) Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919), Syn. Ian Smith, Ian Douglas Smith |
| white | (n) United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921), Syn. Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr., Edward White |
| yerba buena | (n) trailing perennial evergreen herb of northwestern United States with small white flowers; used medicinally, Syn. Micromeria douglasii, Satureja douglasii, Micromeria chamissonis |
