almandite | (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandine |
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andradite | (noun) a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone | - |
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argyrodite | (noun) a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur | - |
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cordite | (noun) explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords | - |
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crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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eruditeness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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hermaphrodite | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
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heulandite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium | - |
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pentlandite | (noun) a mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel | - |
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pseudohermaphrodite | (noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |
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reconditeness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity |
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(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity |
zinnwaldite | (noun) a mica containing iron and lithium | - |
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