abele | (noun) a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces | Synonyms: aspen poplar, Populus alba, silver-leaved poplar, white aspen, white poplar |
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abelia | (noun) any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers; Asia and Mexico | - |
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abelmosk | (noun) bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus moschatus, Hibiscus moschatus, musk mallow |
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amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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babel | (noun) a confusion of voices and other sounds | - |
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barbel | (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: feeler |
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barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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belay | (noun) something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured | - |
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belch | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belching, burp, burping, eructation |
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belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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(noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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belief | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | - |
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(noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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belittling | (noun) the act of belittling | - |
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(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
bell | (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | - |
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(noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell |
(noun) the flared opening of a tubular device | - |
(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: chime, gong |
(noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: toll |
(noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell shape, campana |
(noun) (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. | Synonyms: ship's bell |
belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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(noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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bellbird | (noun) any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call | - |
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bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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bellows | (noun) (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument | - |
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bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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(noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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belly | (noun) the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | - |
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(noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter |
(noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: paunch |
(noun) the hollow inside of something | - |
(noun) a part that bulges deeply | - |
bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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(noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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bellyful | (noun) an undesirable overabundance | - |
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belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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beloved | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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belt | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: knock, rap, whack, whang |
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(noun) a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist) | - |
(noun) endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys | - |
(noun) ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun | Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition |
(noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, knock, smash |
(noun) an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found | - |
(noun) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) | Synonyms: swath |
belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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beluga | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, hausen, white sturgeon |
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(noun) small northern whale that is white when adult | Synonyms: Delphinapterus leucas, white whale |
belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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(noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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(noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
(noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
cascabel | (noun) a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh | Synonyms: sleigh bell |
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cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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coralbells | (noun) perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental | Synonyms: Heuchera sanguinea |
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corbel | (noun) (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) | Synonyms: truss |
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cowbell | (noun) a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
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decibel | (noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | Synonyms: dB |
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disbelief | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism, skepticism |
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(noun) a rejection of belief | Synonyms: unbelief |
doorbell | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, buzzer |
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dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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(noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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(noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
(noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
furbelow | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, frill, ruffle |
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glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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handbell | (noun) a bell that is held in the hand | - |
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harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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(noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
honeybells | (noun) African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs | Synonyms: Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, Mahernia verticillata |
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jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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label | (noun) an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object | - |
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(noun) a brief description given for purposes of identification | - |
(noun) trade name of a company that produces musical recordings | Synonyms: recording label |
(noun) a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction | - |
libel | (noun) a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person | - |
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(noun) the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks | - |
libeler | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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lobelia | (noun) any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia | - |
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misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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nobelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known | Synonyms: atomic number 102, No |
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nonbeliever | (noun) someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) | - |
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obelion | (noun) the craniometric point on the sagittal suture near the lamboid suture | - |
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obelisk | (noun) a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top | - |
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(noun) a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used | Synonyms: dagger |
paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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potbelly | (noun) a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned | Synonyms: potbelly stove |
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(noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, corporation, pot, tummy |
pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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(noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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(noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
redbelly | (noun) freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell | Synonyms: Pseudemys rubriventris, red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle |
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rubel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Belarus | - |
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rubella | (noun) a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester | Synonyms: epidemic roseola, German measles, three-day measles |
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seatbelt | (noun) a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident | Synonyms: seat belt |
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shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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snowbell | (noun) small tree native to Japan | Synonyms: Styrax obassia |
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sowbelly | (noun) salt pork from the belly of a hog carcass | - |
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tubeless | (noun) pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight | Synonyms: tubeless tire |
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umbel | (noun) flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center | - |
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