adobo | (noun) a dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice | - |
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bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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bonobo | (noun) small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species | Synonyms: Pan paniscus, pygmy chimpanzee |
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booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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cocobolo | (noun) a valuable timber tree of tropical South America | Synonyms: Dalbergia retusa |
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corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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fluoroboride | (noun) a salt of fluoroboric acid | - |
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globosity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globularness, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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hippoboscid | (noun) bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals | Synonyms: louse fly |
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hobo | (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, tramp |
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(noun) a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places | Synonyms: migrant worker |
homeobox | (noun) one of various similar homeotic genes that are involved in bodily segmentation during embryonic development | Synonyms: homeobox gene |
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jeroboam | (noun) a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) | Synonyms: double-magnum |
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kobo | (noun) 100 kobos equal 1 naira in Nigeria | - |
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lepidobotrys | (noun) African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds | - |
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lobotomy | (noun) surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes | Synonyms: frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy, prefrontal lobotomy |
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mobocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: ochlocracy |
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nobody | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nonentity |
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oboe | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, hautboy |
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oboist | (noun) a musician who plays the oboe | - |
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obolus | (noun) a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram | - |
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palaeobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: paleobotany |
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paleobotany | (noun) the study of fossil plants | Synonyms: palaeobotany |
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phobophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of developing a phobia | - |
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proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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proboscidian | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidean |
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proboscis | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: trunk |
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(noun) the human nose (especially when it is large) | - |
robocall | (noun) An phone call made by an automated service | - |
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robot | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: automaton, golem |
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robotics | (noun) the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots | - |
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stroboscope | (noun) scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary | Synonyms: strobe, strobe light |
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svoboda | (noun) (Russia) freedom | - |
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telerobotics | (noun) the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance | - |
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toboggan | (noun) a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front | - |
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tobogganing | (noun) riding on a long light sled with low handrails | - |
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tobogganist | (noun) someone who rides a toboggan | - |
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yobo | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo |
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