bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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(noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
(noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
(noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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buckbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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caesarean | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
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calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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cerulean | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
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cesarean | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
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cetacean | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal |
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clean | (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead | Synonyms: clean and jerk |
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crustacean | (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
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dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
(noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
empyrean | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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epicurean | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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(noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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lean | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
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mean | (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
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nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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ocean | (noun) a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere | - |
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(noun) anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume | Synonyms: sea |
paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, pean |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: pean |
pean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: paean |
percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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platyctenean | (noun) ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body | - |
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proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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scarabaean | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle |
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screwbean | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo |
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soybean | (noun) the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) | Synonyms: soy, soya, soya bean |
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(noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean plant |
(noun) a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food | Synonyms: soy, soya bean |
terpsichorean | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
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testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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tirolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tyrolean |
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tyrolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tirolean |
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