chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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(noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
child | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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(noun) a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age | Synonyms: kid |
(noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: baby |
(noun) a member of a clan or tribe | - |
childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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(noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
chiliad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
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chipboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: hardboard |
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chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
(noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
chokehold | (noun) a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind | Synonyms: choke hold |
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(noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: stranglehold, throttlehold |
chord | (noun) a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together | - |
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(noun) a straight line connecting two points on a curve | - |
choroid | (noun) a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera; a dark pigmentation minimizes the scattering of light inside the eye | Synonyms: choroid coat |
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chromatid | (noun) one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis | - |
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chrysomelid | (noun) brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves; larvae infest roots and stems | Synonyms: leaf beetle |
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chrysopid | (noun) pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae | Synonyms: green lacewing, stink fly |
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churchyard | (noun) the yard associated with a church | Synonyms: God's acre |
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cichlid | (noun) freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums | Synonyms: cichlid fish |
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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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citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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clapboard | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: weatherboard, weatherboarding |
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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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classified | (noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
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clavichord | (noun) an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound | - |
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clearweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: dead nettle, Pilea pumilla, richweed |
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clerid | (noun) predacious on other insects; usually brightly colored or metallic | Synonyms: clerid beetle |
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clinid | (noun) mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds | Synonyms: clinid fish |
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clipboard | (noun) a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers | - |
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clochard | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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clod | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clump, glob, lump |
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(noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
cloud | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: swarm |
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(noun) a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude | - |
(noun) any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible | - |
(noun) suspicion affecting your reputation | - |
(noun) out of touch with reality | - |
(noun) a cause of worry or gloom or trouble | - |
clubhead | (noun) (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball | Synonyms: club-head, club head, golf-club head |
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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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coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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coastguard | (noun) a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters | - |
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coastland | (noun) land in a coastal area | - |
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cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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cod | (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: codfish |
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(noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: codfish |
(noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: pod, seedcase |
cold | (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
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(noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: coldness |
(noun) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) | Synonyms: common cold |
collard | (noun) variety of kale having smooth leaves | - |
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colloid | (noun) a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension | - |
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colored | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored person, coloured, coloured person |
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coloured | (noun) a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | Synonyms: colored, colored person, coloured person |
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colubrid | (noun) mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes | Synonyms: colubrid snake |
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comatulid | (noun) free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms | Synonyms: feather star |
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command | (noun) the power or authority to command | - |
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(noun) availability for use | - |
(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: control, mastery |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement |
(noun) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer | - |
(noun) a position of highest authority | - |
compound | (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
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(noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
(noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
(noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
conchoid | (noun) Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts). | - |
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concord | (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concordance, harmony |
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(noun) the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | Synonyms: agreement |
(noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concordance, harmony |
conoid | (noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point | Synonyms: cone, cone shape |
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contraband | (noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
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coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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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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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 |
copyhold | (noun) a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services | - |
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coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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cord | (noun) a line made of twisted fibers or threads | - |
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(noun) a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton | Synonyms: corduroy |
(noun) a light insulated conductor for household use | Synonyms: electric cord |
(noun) a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet | - |
cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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coreid | (noun) a true bug | Synonyms: coreid bug |
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corkboard | (noun) a heat-insulating building material consisting of cork granules that are made into sheets by compressing and baking | - |
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corkwood | (noun) very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood | Synonyms: corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana |
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cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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corticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticosteroid |
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corticosteroid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticoid |
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cosmid | (noun) (genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments | - |
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cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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(noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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(noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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coward | (noun) a person who shows fear or timidity | - |
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cowbird | (noun) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests | - |
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cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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cowherd | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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cowshed | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse |
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crapaud | (noun) large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog | Synonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus, South American bullfrog |
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crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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cred | (noun) credibility among young fashionable urban individuals | Synonyms: street cred, street credibility |
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creed | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: credo |
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(noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, gospel, religious doctrine |
crinoid | (noun) primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk | - |
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crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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(noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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crowd | (noun) a large number of things or people considered together | - |
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(noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, gang |
crownbeard | (noun) any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads | Synonyms: crown-beard, crown beard |
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crud | (noun) an ill-defined bodily ailment | - |
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(noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: filth, skank |
(noun) heavy wet snow that is unsuitable for skiing | - |
cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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cuboid | (noun) a rectangular parallelepiped | - |
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cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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cud | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, plug, quid, wad |
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(noun) food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again | Synonyms: rechewed food |
cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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(noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
(noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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cupboard | (noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | Synonyms: closet |
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cupid | (noun) a symbol for love in the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow | - |
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curd | (noun) coagulated milk; used to make cheese | - |
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(noun) a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd | - |
cuspid | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
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