albuginea | (noun) whitish tunic | - |
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cochineal | (noun) Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye | Synonyms: cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus |
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(noun) a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects | - |
delineation | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal |
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(noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: depiction, limning, line drawing |
(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
dulcinea | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: ladylove |
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faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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guinea | (noun) a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world | Synonyms: guinea fowl, Numida meleagris |
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(noun) a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings | - |
hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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lineage | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, filiation |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: linage |
(noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: linage |
(noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, filiation, line of descent |
lineament | (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: feature |
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(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, quality |
linearity | (noun) the property of having one dimension | Synonyms: one-dimensionality |
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lineation | (noun) the act of marking or outlining with lines | - |
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(noun) the line that appears to bound an object | Synonyms: outline |
matrilineage | (noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: cognation, enation |
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matrilineality | (noun) a system in which a person's descent is traced through their mother and her maternal ancestors. | - |
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misocainea | (noun) hatred of new ideas | - |
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multicollinearity | (noun) a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated | - |
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patrilineage | (noun) line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family | Synonyms: agnation |
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pinealoma | (noun) tumor of the pineal gland | - |
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pineapple | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: ananas |
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(noun) a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: Ananas comosus, pineapple plant |
rectilinearity | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that is rectilinear, straight. | - |
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tinea | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, roundworm |
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