| aardwolf | (noun) striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects | Synonyms: Proteles cristata |
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| abwatt | (noun) a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt) | - |
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| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
| activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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| advowson | (noun) the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice | - |
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| afterglow | (noun) the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event | - |
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| (noun) a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset | - |
| afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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| agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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| agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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| (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
| aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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| aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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| airflow | (noun) the flow of air | Synonyms: air flow, flow of air |
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| airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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| airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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| airway | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline, airline business |
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| (noun) a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) | Synonyms: air duct, air passage |
| (noun) the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | Synonyms: respiratory tract |
| (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, flight path, skyway |
| airwoman | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: aviatress, aviatrix |
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| airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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| alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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| (noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
| alleyway | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alley, back street |
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| allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
| (noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
| (noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
| (noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
| (noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
| answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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| answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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| answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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| applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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| archway | (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: arch |
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| areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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| armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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| (noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
| (noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
| arrow | (noun) a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow | - |
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| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: pointer |
| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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| (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
| (noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
| arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| artwork | (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, graphics, nontextual matter |
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| assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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| avowal | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avouchment |
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| avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| awayness | (noun) the state of being elsewhere than in particular place | - |
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| awe | (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: fear, reverence, veneration |
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| (noun) an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration | - |
| awfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| awn | (noun) slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses | - |
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| awning | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: sunblind, sunshade |
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| backdown | (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal |
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| backflow | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflowing |
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| backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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| backsaw | (noun) a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge | Synonyms: back saw |
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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| backsword | (noun) a sword with only one cutting edge | - |
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| (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: fencing stick, singlestick |
| backwardation | (noun) the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. | - |
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| backwardness | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality |
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| backwash | (noun) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward | Synonyms: wake |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, race, slipstream, wash |
| (noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: aftermath, wake |
| backwater | (noun) a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring | - |
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| (noun) a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam | - |
| backwoods | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland |
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| backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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| bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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| bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| (noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
| bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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| bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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| (noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
| bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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| barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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| (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
| barrowful | (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrow |
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| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| batwing | (noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
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| bawbee | (noun) an old Scottish coin of little value | - |
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| bawd | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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| bawdry | (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdy |
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| bawdy | (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdry |
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| bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| (noun) a loud weeper | - |
| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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| beadwork | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beading |
| bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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| bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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| (noun) a temporary associate | - |
| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| bedwetter | (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, wetter |
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| beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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| beefwood | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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| (noun) any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork | - |
| (noun) tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: Grevillea striata |
| (noun) tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood | Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus |
| (noun) any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork | - |
| beeswax | (noun) a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs | - |
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| beetleweed | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
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| beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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| beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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| bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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