ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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(noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
insect | (noun) small air-breathing arthropod | - |
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(noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, louse, worm |
insecticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill insects | Synonyms: insect powder |
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insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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(noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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insecurity | (noun) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | - |
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(noun) the state of being subject to danger or injury | - |
insemination | (noun) the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female | - |
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(noun) the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.) | - |
insensibility | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness |
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(noun) a lack of sensibility | - |
insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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insensitivity | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitiveness |
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insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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(noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
(noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
(noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
insertion | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: introduction, intromission |
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(noun) a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted | Synonyms: interpolation |
inset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: gusset |
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(noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: insert |
(noun) a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one | - |
linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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rinse | (noun) washing lightly without soap | - |
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(noun) the act of giving a light tint to the hair | - |
(noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinsing |
(noun) a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint | - |
tinsel | (noun) a thread with glittering metal foil attached | - |
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(noun) a showy decoration that is basically valueless | - |