Term: weather bureau: an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: crystal: a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: progressive party: a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912; its emblem was a picture of a bull moose
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: dust devil: a miniature whirlwind strong enough to whip dust and leaves and litter into the air
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: proof: (printing) an impression made to check for errors
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: giant timber bamboo: large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: territorial: a territorial military unit
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: rectification: (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: white marlin: small marlin (to 180 pounds) of western Atlantic
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: broadloom: a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams
Broader: administrative unit: a unit with administrative responsibilities | Unrelated: plectomycetes: class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a cleistothecium (it releases spores only on decay or disintegration)