anklebone | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: astragal, astragalus, talus |
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bleb | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: blister, bulla |
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bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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bumblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: humblebee |
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candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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(noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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(noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
(noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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celebrity | (noun) a widely known person | Synonyms: famous person |
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(noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: fame, renown |
cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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(noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
cockleburr | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cocklebur |
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dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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doodlebug | (noun) the larva of any of several insects | Synonyms: ant lion, antlion |
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(noun) a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb | Synonyms: buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1 |
(noun) a small motor vehicle | - |
farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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gleba | (noun) fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn | - |
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glebe | (noun) plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office | - |
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handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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hellebore | (noun) any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus | - |
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(noun) perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes | Synonyms: false hellebore |
helleborine | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera | - |
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(noun) any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis | - |
(noun) any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme | Synonyms: rattlesnake plantain |
huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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(noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
(noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
humblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: bumblebee |
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klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
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lebensraum | (noun) space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding | Synonyms: living space |
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maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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middlebrow | (noun) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow | - |
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musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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phlebectomy | (noun) surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins | - |
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phlebitis | (noun) inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs) | - |
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phlebogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: venogram |
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phlebothrombosis | (noun) thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood | Synonyms: venous thrombosis |
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phlebotomist | (noun) someone who practices phlebotomy | - |
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phlebotomus | (noun) a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii | Synonyms: pappataci fever, sandfly fever |
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phlebotomy | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: venesection |
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pleb | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: plebeian |
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plebe | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: cadet |
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plebeian | (noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
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plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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plebiscite | (noun) a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance | - |
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prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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(noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
rattlebox | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: crotalaria |
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riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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(noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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shuffleboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shovelboard |
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solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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spittlebug | (noun) small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | Synonyms: spittle insect |
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stableboy | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableman |
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stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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stumblebum | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf |
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(noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: palooka |
talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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(noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
(noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
thrombophlebitis | (noun) phlebitis in conjunction with the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) | - |
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tumblebug | (noun) any of various dung beetles | - |
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whaleboat | (noun) a long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas | - |
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whalebone | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: baleen |
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whistleblower | (noun) an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it | Synonyms: whistle-blower, whistle blower |
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whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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(noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |