Term: national oceanic and atmospheric administration: an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: tamiasciurus: American red squirrels
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: fruit bat: large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: sentimentalism: the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: human botfly: large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: sidalcea: genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: toucan: brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: temporalis muscle: muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: physical rehabilitation: providing help for disabled persons; the removal or reduction of disabilities
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: blowhole: the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: geocentric parallax: the parallax of a celestial body using two points on the surface of the earth as the earth rotates