| greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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| grey | (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: gray |
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| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: gray |
| greyback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: grayback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, knot |
| (noun) `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms | Synonyms: Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel |
| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| greyhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, heath hen |
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| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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| greyness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, grey |
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| gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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| hackney | (noun) a compact breed of harness horse | - |
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| (noun) a carriage for hire | Synonyms: hackney carriage, hackney coach |
| hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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| hartley | (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, dit, Hart |
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| heyday | (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, peak, prime |
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| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| honey | (noun) a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees | - |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| honeybee | (noun) social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces | Synonyms: Apis mellifera |
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| 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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| honeycomb | (noun) a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees | - |
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| (noun) a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae | - |
| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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| (noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
| honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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| (noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
| honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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| (noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
| honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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| honeypot | (noun) South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes | Synonyms: king protea, Protea cynaroides |
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| honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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| honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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| (noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
| (noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
| honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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| hooey | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| jersey | (noun) a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric | - |
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| (noun) a close-fitting pullover shirt | Synonyms: T-shirt, tee shirt |
| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| jitney | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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| journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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| journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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| journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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| key | (noun) metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated | - |
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| (noun) a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed | - |
| (noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: winder |
| (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, keystone |
| (noun) pitch of the voice | - |
| (noun) something crucial for explaining | - |
| (noun) any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music | Synonyms: tonality |
| (noun) a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access | - |
| (noun) a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations | - |
| (noun) a list of answers to a test | - |
| (noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: paint |
| (noun) a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida | Synonyms: cay, Florida key |
| (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key fruit, samara |
| (noun) a kilogram of a narcotic drug | - |
| keyboard | (noun) holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung | - |
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| (noun) device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like | - |
| keyboardist | (noun) a musician who plays a keyboard instrument | - |
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| keycard | (noun) a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip that is scanned in order to operate a mechanism | - |
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| keyfob | (noun) A small object fastened to a key chain or key ring and designed to be comfortably grasped. | Synonyms: key fob |
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| keyhole | (noun) the hole where a key is inserted | - |
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| keynote | (noun) a fundamental or central idea | - |
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| (noun) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale | Synonyms: tonic |
| (noun) the principal theme in a speech or literary work | - |
| keypad | (noun) a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard | Synonyms: computer keyboard |
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| keystone | (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, key |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
| keystroke | (noun) the stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard | Synonyms: key stroke |
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| kidney | (noun) either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine | - |
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| kiley | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kylie |
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| lackey | (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, flunky |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, sycophant, toady |
| lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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| lamprey | (noun) primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue | Synonyms: lamper eel, lamprey eel |
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| langley | (noun) unit of solar radiation | - |
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| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| ley | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, pasture, pasture land, pastureland |
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| limey | (noun) a man of English descent | Synonyms: John Bull |
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| looney | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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| maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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| (noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
| malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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| malmsey | (noun) sweet Madeira wine | - |
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| mamey | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mammee, mammee apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: Mammea americana, mammee, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| mangabey | (noun) large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids | - |
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| medley | (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: pastiche, potpourri |
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| money | (noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | - |
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| (noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank | - |
| (noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money | - |
| moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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| moneyer | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, minter |
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| moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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| moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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| moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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| (noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
| moneymaking | (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
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| moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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| moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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| mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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| motley | (noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) | - |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| odyssey | (noun) a long wandering and eventful journey | - |
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| okey | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okeh |
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| orphrey | (noun) a richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestment | - |
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| osprey | (noun) large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years | Synonyms: fish eagle, fish hawk, Pandion haliaetus, sea eagle |
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| oxeye | (noun) an oval or round dormer window | - |
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| (noun) Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers | - |
| (noun) any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers | Synonyms: heliopsis |
| paisley | (noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes | - |
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| palfrey | (noun) especially a light saddle horse for a woman | - |
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| parley | (noun) a negotiation between enemies | - |
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| parsley | (noun) aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves | Synonyms: Petroselinum crispum |
| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| peyote | (noun) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons | Synonyms: mescaline |
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| (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mescal, mezcal |
| phoney | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender |
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| pinkeye | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: conjunctivitis |
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| pogey | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: dole, pogy |
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| pokey | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, poky, slammer |
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| prey | (noun) animal hunted or caught for food | Synonyms: quarry |
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| (noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, quarry, target |
| pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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| purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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| purveyor | (noun) someone who supplies provisions (especially food) | - |
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| pussley | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussly, verdolagas |
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| rabbiteye | (noun) shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry | Synonyms: rabbit-eye blueberry, rabbiteye blueberry, Vaccinium ashei |
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| redeye | (noun) a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep | Synonyms: redeye flight |
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