aardwolf | (noun) striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects | Synonyms: Proteles cristata |
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golf | (noun) a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes | Synonyms: golf game |
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golfcart | (noun) a small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots | Synonyms: golf cart |
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golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
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golfer | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, linksman |
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golfing | (noun) playing golf | - |
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olfaction | (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell |
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olfactology | (noun) the scientific study of smells or of the sense of smell. | - |
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rauvolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauwolfia |
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rauwolfia | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives | Synonyms: rauvolfia |
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(noun) any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina | - |
schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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solfa | (noun) a system of solmization using the solfa syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti | Synonyms: tonic solfa |
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solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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(noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
solfeggio | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfege |
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(noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfege, solmization |
solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
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werewolf | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman |
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wolf | (noun) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs | - |
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(noun) a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women | Synonyms: masher, skirt chaser, woman chaser |
(noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wildcat |
wolfbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfsbane |
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wolffish | (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: catfish, wolf fish |
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(noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, lancetfish |
wolfhound | (noun) the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves | - |
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wolfman | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, werewolf |
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wolfram | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, tungsten, W |
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wolframite | (noun) a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks | Synonyms: iron manganese tungsten |
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wolfsbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfbane |
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