Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the greenhouse effect1 â warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping.
Definition of CROCKY. : impaired in one's powers: physically frail. ADVERTISEMENT.ote that some information is displayed differently in the Unabridged. To access the complete Unabridged Dictionary, with an additional 300,000 words that aren't in our free dictionary, start a free trial.
The noun LADY'S SMOCK has 1 sense: 1  1. a bitter cress of Europe and America. 2  Meaning: 3  A bitter cress of Europe and America. 4  Classified under: 5  Nouns denoting plants. 6  Synonyms: 7  Cardamine pratensis; cuckoo flower; cuckooflower; lady's smock; meadow cress. 8  Hypernyms (lady's smock is a kind of...): bitter cress; bittercress (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)