| calliope | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard | Synonyms: steam organ |
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| calliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: caliper |
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| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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| camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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| (noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
| canape | (noun) an appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food | - |
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| cantaloupe | (noun) the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup |
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| (noun) a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh | Synonyms: cantaloup, cantaloup vine, cantaloupe vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis |
| cape | (noun) a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter | Synonyms: mantle |
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| (noun) a strip of land projecting into a body of water | Synonyms: ness |
| capelan | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelin, caplin |
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| capelet | (noun) a small cape that covers the shoulders and is worn predominantly by women. | - |
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| capelin | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelan, caplin |
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| caper | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: frolic, gambol, play, romp |
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| (noun) a crime (especially a robbery) | Synonyms: job |
| (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, joke, prank, put-on, trick |
| (noun) a playful leap or hop | Synonyms: capriole |
| (noun) pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces | - |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis | - |
| capercaillie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capercailzie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capeweed | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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| cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| carpel | (noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil | - |
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| carpenter | (noun) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects | - |
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| carpenteria | (noun) California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers | Synonyms: Carpenteria californica |
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| carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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| carper | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: niggler |
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| carpet | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpeting, rug |
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| (noun) a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet | - |
| carpetbag | (noun) traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century | - |
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| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| carpeting | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpet, rug |
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| carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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| cefoperazone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections | Synonyms: Cefobid |
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| centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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| chapeau | (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: hat, lid |
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| chapel | (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar | Synonyms: chapel service |
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| (noun) a place of worship that has its own altar | - |
| chapelgoer | (noun) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England | Synonyms: Nonconformist |
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| chaperon | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| chaperone | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| chichipe | (noun) tall treelike Mexican cactus with edible red fruit | Synonyms: Lemaireocereus chichipe |
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| chickpea | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: garbanzo |
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| (noun) Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds | Synonyms: chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea |
| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: garbanzo |
| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
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| (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
| (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
| chronoscope | (noun) an instrument for accurate measurements of small intervals of time | - |
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| circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
| cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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| cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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| cityscape | (noun) painting depicting a city or urban area | - |
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| (noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area | - |
| clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
| (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
| clapperboard | (noun) photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together | - |
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| clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| clupeid | (noun) any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas | Synonyms: clupeid fish |
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| clypeus | (noun) a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head | - |
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| collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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| colonoscope | (noun) an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum | - |
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| colposcope | (noun) An endoscopic instrument that magnifies the epithelia of the vagina and cervix in vivo to allow direct observation and study of these tissues. | Synonyms: vaginoscope |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| conspecific | (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
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| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| cooper | (noun) a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs | Synonyms: barrel maker |
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| cooperation | (noun) joint operation or action | - |
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| (noun) the practice of cooperating | - |
| cooperative | (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
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| (noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
| cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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| cooperator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, pardner, partner |
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| cope | (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: coping, header |
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| (noun) a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions | - |
| copeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: kopeck, kopek |
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| copepod | (noun) minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | Synonyms: copepod crustacean |
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| copestone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher |
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| (noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch |
| copper | (noun) any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings | - |
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| (noun) a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper | Synonyms: copper color |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) a copper penny | - |
| (noun) a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor | Synonyms: atomic number 29, Cu |
| copperhead | (noun) common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix |
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| (noun) venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia | Synonyms: Denisonia superba |
| copperplate | (noun) an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: copperplate engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from an engraved copperplate | - |
| (noun) a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings | - |
| coppersmith | (noun) someone who makes articles from copper | - |
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| copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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| counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| coupe | (noun) a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment | - |
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| cowpea | (noun) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
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| (noun) sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure | Synonyms: black-eyed pea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata |
| (noun) fruit or seed of the cowpea plant | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
| crape | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crepe |
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| (noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crepe, French pancake |
| crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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| crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
| (noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
| crepe | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crape |
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| (noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crape, French pancake |
| (noun) paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations | Synonyms: crepe paper |
| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| cropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| croupe | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, hindquarters, rump |
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| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| crupper | (noun) a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward | - |
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| cryoscope | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring freezing and melting points | - |
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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| cupel | (noun) a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead | Synonyms: bone-ash cup, refractory pot |
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| cupper | (noun) a cup of tea | Synonyms: cuppa |
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| cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| cytopenia | (noun) a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood | - |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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