acholia | (noun) a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed | Synonyms: cholestasis |
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defoliant | (noun) a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off | - |
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defoliation | (noun) causing the leaves of trees and other plants to fall off (as by the use of chemicals) | - |
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(noun) the loss of foliage | - |
defoliator | (noun) an insect that strips the leaves from plants | - |
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despoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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exfoliation | (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: scale, scurf |
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(noun) the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin | - |
fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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foliage | (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliation |
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(noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: leaf, leafage |
foliation | (noun) the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves | - |
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(noun) the work of coating glass with metal foil | - |
(noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliage |
(noun) (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock | - |
(noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: leafing |
goliard | (noun) a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs | - |
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goliath | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, monster |
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kaoliang | (noun) sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | - |
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magnolia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms | - |
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(noun) dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine | - |
melancholia | (noun) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears | - |
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melancholiac | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholic |
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mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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pignolia | (noun) edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America | Synonyms: pine nut, pinon nut |
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scholia | (noun) a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature) | Synonyms: scholium |
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scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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spoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation |
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(noun) (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence | - |
trifoliata | (noun) small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges | Synonyms: Poncirus trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange |
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