actinozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: anthozoan |
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angledozer | (noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side | - |
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antherozoid | (noun) a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm | Synonyms: spermatozoid |
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anthozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: actinozoan |
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antiprotozoal | (noun) a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa | Synonyms: antiprotozoal drug |
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booze | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, spirits, strong drink |
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boozer | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
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boozing | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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bozo | (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: cat, guy, hombre, sod |
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(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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ceratozamia | (noun) a small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones; Mexico | - |
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clozapine | (noun) an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; known to have few side effects | Synonyms: Clozaril |
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cocozelle | (noun) squash resembling zucchini | - |
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(noun) squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow | Synonyms: Italian vegetable marrow |
corozo | (noun) any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts | Synonyms: corozo palm |
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cozenage | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: scam |
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coziness | (noun) a state of warm snug comfort | Synonyms: cosiness, snugness |
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cozy | (noun) a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm | Synonyms: cosy, tea cosy, tea cozy |
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crozier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crosier |
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daminozide | (noun) a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time | Synonyms: Alar |
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damozel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damsel, demoiselle |
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doze | (noun) a light fitful sleep | Synonyms: drowse |
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dozen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, twelve, XII |
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dozens | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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dozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: bulldozer |
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ectozoan | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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endozoan | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
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entozoan | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoon |
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entozoon | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan |
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floozie | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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floozy | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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heliozoan | (noun) protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods | - |
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heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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heterozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring | - |
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homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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hydrozoan | (noun) colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant | Synonyms: hydroid |
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hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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hypozeuxis | (noun) use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered') | - |
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iproclozide | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor | - |
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kolkhoz | (noun) a collective farm owned by the communist state | - |
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kolkhoznik | (noun) a member of a kolkhoz | - |
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leucocytozoan | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoon |
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leucocytozoon | (noun) parasitic in birds | Synonyms: leucocytozoan |
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lozenge | (noun) a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet | Synonyms: pill, tab, tablet |
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(noun) a small aromatic or medicated candy | - |
lysozyme | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: muramidase |
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macrozamia | (noun) any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia | - |
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merozoite | (noun) a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle | - |
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mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
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nozzle | (noun) a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged | Synonyms: nose |
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(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
ooze | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: oozing, seepage |
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(noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, slime, sludge |
oozing | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, seepage |
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oxaprozin | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Daypro) | Synonyms: Daypro |
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ozaena | (noun) a chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures | Synonyms: ozena |
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ozena | (noun) a chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures | Synonyms: ozaena |
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ozocerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozokerite |
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ozokerite | (noun) a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles | Synonyms: ader wax, earth wax, mineral wax, ozocerite |
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ozone | (noun) a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation) | - |
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ozonide | (noun) any of a class of unstable chemical compounds resulting from the addition of ozone to a double bond in an unsaturated compound | - |
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ozonosphere | (noun) a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun | Synonyms: ozone layer |
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palaeozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: paleozoology |
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paleozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: palaeozoology |
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pimozide | (noun) the most commonly used diphenylbutyl piperidine | - |
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pirozhki | (noun) small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried | Synonyms: pirogi, piroshki |
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protozoan | (noun) any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic | Synonyms: protozoon |
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protozoologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies protozoans | - |
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protozoology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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protozoon | (noun) any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic | Synonyms: protozoan |
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rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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rozelle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, roselle, sorrel |
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schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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schmooze | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose |
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schmoozer | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, conversationist |
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schnoz | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
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schnozzle | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, snoot, snout |
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scyphozoan | (noun) any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle | - |
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shemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: schemozzle |
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shmooze | (noun) (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk | - |
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snooze | (noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) | Synonyms: catnap, forty winks, light sleep, nap, short sleep |
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spermatozoan | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | Synonyms: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon |
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spermatozoid | (noun) a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm | Synonyms: antherozoid |
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spermatozoon | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | Synonyms: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoan |
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sporozoan | (noun) parasitic spore-forming protozoan | - |
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sporozoite | (noun) one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle | - |
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trophozoite | (noun) a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle | - |
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