colony | (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: settlement |
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(noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | - |
(noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | - |
(noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: dependency |
(noun) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated | - |
diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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felony | (noun) a serious crime (such as murder or arson) | - |
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holonym | (noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part | Synonyms: whole name |
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holonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts | Synonyms: whole to part relation |
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malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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polony | (noun) another name for Bologna sausage | - |
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