| fauna | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature |
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| (noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: zoology |
| fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
| fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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| (noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
| (noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
| flashgun | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, photoflash |
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| flaunt | (noun) the act of displaying something ostentatiously | - |
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| flounce | (noun) the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions | - |
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| (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: frill, furbelow, ruffle |
| flounder | (noun) any of various European and non-European marine flatfish | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of various American and European flatfish | - |
| fluidounce | (noun) a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
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| (noun) a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches) | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
| flunitrazepam | (noun) a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia | Synonyms: Rohypnol |
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| flunk | (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: failing |
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| flunkey | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunky, lackey |
| flunky | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunkey, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, lackey |
| foreground | (noun) (computer science) a window for an active application | - |
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| (noun) the part of a scene that is near the viewer | - |
| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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| forerunner | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: precursor |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: antecedent |
| fortune | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: luck |
| (noun) a large amount of wealth or prosperity | - |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion |
| fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| found | (noun) food and lodging provided in addition to money | - |
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| foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
| (noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
| (noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
| founder | (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father |
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| (noun) a worker who makes metal castings | - |
| (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: laminitis |
| foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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| founding | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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| foundress | (noun) a woman founder | - |
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| foundry | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: metalworks |
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| fount | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fountain |
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| (noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, face, font, typeface |
| fountain | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fount |
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| (noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: jet |
| (noun) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring |
| fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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| (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
| foxhound | (noun) medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes | - |
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| foxhunt | (noun) mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox | Synonyms: fox hunting |
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| fun | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: merriment, playfulness |
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| (noun) violent and excited activity | - |
| (noun) a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement | Synonyms: playfulness |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: play, sport |
| funambulism | (noun) walking on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walking |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| function | (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: office, part, role |
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| (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: purpose, role, use |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: affair, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) | Synonyms: map, mapping, mathematical function, single-valued function |
| (noun) a relation such that one thing is dependent on another | - |
| functionalism | (noun) a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment | - |
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| (noun) any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose | - |
| functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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| functionality | (noun) capable of serving a purpose well | - |
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| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| functioning | (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
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| fund | (noun) a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies | Synonyms: investment company, investment firm, investment trust |
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| (noun) a reserve of money set aside for some purpose | Synonyms: monetary fund |
| (noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: stock, store |
| fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
| fundamental | (noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
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| (noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
| fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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| (noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
| fundamentalist | (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| fundamentalness | (noun) The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance. | - |
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| fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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| funday | (noun) Sunday as a day for relaxing and having fun | - |
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| funding | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: financing |
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| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, support |
| fundraiser | (noun) a social function that is held for the purpose of raising money | - |
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| (noun) someone who solicits financial contributions | - |
| funds | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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| fundus | (noun) (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening | - |
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| funeral | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: obsequy |
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| funfair | (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, fair |
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| (noun) a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement | Synonyms: amusement park, pleasure ground |
| fungibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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| fungible | (noun) a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation | - |
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| fungicide | (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal, antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent |
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| fungus | (noun) an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | - |
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| funicle | (noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funiculus |
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| funicular | (noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
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| funiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a funiculus (especially an inflammation of the spermatic cord) | - |
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| funiculus | (noun) any of several body structure resembling a cord | - |
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| (noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funicle |
| funk | (noun) an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar | - |
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| (noun) a state of nervous depression | Synonyms: blue funk |
| funkiness | (noun) (US, slang) The property of being original, offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | - |
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| funnel | (noun) (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) | - |
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| (noun) a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth | - |
| (noun) a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends | Synonyms: funnel shape |
| funnies | (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, strip |
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| funniness | (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, drollery |
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| funny | (noun) an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line) | Synonyms: funny remark, funny story, good story |
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| funrun | (noun) a footrace run for fun (often including runners who are sponsored for a charity) | Synonyms: fun run |
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| furuncle | (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: boil |
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| furunculosis | (noun) acute skin disease characterized by the presence of many furuncles | - |
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| gauntlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gantlet |
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| (noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gantlet, metal glove |
| (noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gantlet |
| (noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gantlet |
| gauntness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration |
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| gauntry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gantry |
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| geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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| gerund | (noun) a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun) | - |
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| grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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| granduncle | (noun) an uncle of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-uncle |
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| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| ground | (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat |
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| (noun) (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting | - |
| (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: earth |
| (noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: background |
| (noun) a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused | - |
| (noun) a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle) | - |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: occasion, reason |
| (noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, earth, land, solid ground, terra firma |
| (noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: land, soil |
| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, footing |
| (noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: earth |
| groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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| groundberry | (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia | Synonyms: Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum |
| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundbreaking | (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
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| groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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| (noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
| grounder | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, hopper |
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| groundfish | (noun) fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) | Synonyms: bottom fish |
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| groundhog | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: Marmota monax, woodchuck |
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| grounding | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: earthing |
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| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: foundation |
| groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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| groundlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking substance or value | Synonyms: idleness |
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| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| groundmass | (noun) (geology) the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded | - |
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| groundnut | (noun) nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans | Synonyms: potato bean, wild bean |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans | Synonyms: Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean |
| grounds | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, yard |
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| (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: evidence |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, reason |
| (noun) a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) | - |
| (noun) dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue | - |
| groundsel | (noun) Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Senecio vulgaris |
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| groundsheet | (noun) a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture | Synonyms: ground cloth |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| groundsman | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundskeeper |
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| groundspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the ground | - |
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