| monocot | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocotyledon |
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| monocotyledon | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocot |
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| monocracy | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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| monocycle | (noun) a vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals | Synonyms: unicycle |
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| monocyte | (noun) a type of granular leukocyte that functions in the ingestion of bacteria | - |
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| monocytosis | (noun) increase in the number of monocytes in the blood; symptom of monocytic leukemia | - |
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| monody | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monophonic music, monophony |
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| monogamist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogynist |
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| monogamousness | (noun) the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time | Synonyms: monogamy |
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| monogamy | (noun) the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time | Synonyms: monogamousness |
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| monogenesis | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: sporulation |
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| monogram | (noun) a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing | - |
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| monograph | (noun) a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject | - |
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| monogynist | (noun) someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time) | Synonyms: monogamist |
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| monogyny | (noun) having only one wife at a time | - |
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| monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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| monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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| monoideism | (noun) a state of prolonged absorption in a single idea (as in mental depression, trance, hypnosis). | - |
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| monolatry | (noun) the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only god | - |
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| monolingual | (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
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| monolith | (noun) a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) | - |
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| monologist | (noun) an entertainer who performs alone | - |
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| monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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| (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
| (noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
| monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: possession |
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| monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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| monomer | (noun) a simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers | - |
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| monometallism | (noun) the use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. | - |
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| mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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| mononucleosis | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing | Synonyms: glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mono |
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| monophony | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monody, monophonic music |
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| monoplane | (noun) an airplane with a single wing | - |
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| monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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| monopolisation | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolization |
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| monopoliser | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopolist, monopolizer |
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| monopolist | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolizer |
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| monopolization | (noun) domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: monopolisation |
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| monopolizer | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolist |
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| monopoly | (noun) (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller | - |
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| (noun) exclusive control or possession of something | - |
| monopsony | (noun) (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | - |
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| monorail | (noun) a railway having a single track | - |
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| monorchidism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchism |
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| monorchism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchidism |
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| monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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| monosaccharide | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharose, simple sugar |
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| monosaccharose | (noun) a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | Synonyms: monosaccharide, simple sugar |
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| monosemy | (noun) having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases | - |
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| monosomy | (noun) chromosomal abnormality consisting of the absence of one chromosome from the normal diploid number | - |
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| monosyllable | (noun) a word or utterance of one syllable | Synonyms: monosyllabic word |
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| monotheism | (noun) belief in a single God | - |
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| monotheist | (noun) a believer in one god | - |
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| monotone | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, droning |
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| (noun) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) | - |
| monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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| (noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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| monotype | (noun) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters | - |
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| (noun) the sole print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked glass or metal plate | - |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus) | - |
| monoxide | (noun) an oxide containing just one atom of oxygen in the molecule | - |
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| mons | (noun) a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women | Synonyms: mons pubis, mons veneris |
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| monsoon | (noun) a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter | - |
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| (noun) any wind that changes direction with the seasons | - |
| (noun) rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | - |
| monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
| (noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
| monstera | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: ceriman |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants | - |
| monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
| monstrosity | (noun) something hideous or frightful | - |
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| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monster |
| montage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: collage |
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| monte | (noun) a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time | Synonyms: three-card monte |
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| month | (noun) a time unit of approximately 30 days | - |
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| (noun) one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year | Synonyms: calendar month |
| monthly | (noun) a periodical that is published every month (or 12 issues per year) | - |
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| monthsary | (noun) the one month anniversary of something | - |
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| monument | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: memorial |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: repository |
| (noun) an important site that is marked and preserved as public property | - |
| moo | (noun) the sound made by a cow or bull | - |
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| mooch | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, moocher, scrounger |
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| moocher | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, scrounger |
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| mood | (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, temper |
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| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mode |
| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: climate |
| moodiness | (noun) having temperamental and changeable moods | - |
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| (noun) a sullen gloomy feeling | - |
| moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| moon | (noun) any natural satellite of a planet | - |
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| (noun) any object resembling a moon | - |
| (noun) the natural satellite of the Earth | Synonyms: Moon |
| (noun) the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) | Synonyms: lunar month, lunation, synodic month |
| moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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| mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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| moonfish | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, opah |
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| (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, Selene setapinnis |
| moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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| moong | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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| moonshell | (noun) marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires | Synonyms: moon shell |
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| moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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| (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
| moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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| moonshot | (noun) an ambitious project with a high chance of failure | - |
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| moonstone | (noun) a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
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| moonwalk | (noun) an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon | - |
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| (noun) a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot | - |
| moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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| moor | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moorland |
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| moorage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, docking, tying up |
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| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, mooring, slip |
| (noun) a fee for mooring | - |
| moorbird | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorfowl, moorgame, red grouse |
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| moorcock | (noun) male red grouse | - |
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| moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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| moorgame | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorfowl, red grouse |
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| moorhen | (noun) black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes | Synonyms: Gallinula chloropus |
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| (noun) female red grouse | - |
| mooring | (noun) (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place | Synonyms: mooring line |
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| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, slip |
| moorland | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moor |
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