| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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| boxfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: trunkfish |
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| branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
| (noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
| breadth | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: width |
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| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness |
| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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| (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
| (noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
| (noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
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| breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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| broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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| broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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| (noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
| brooch | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, broach |
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| broth | (noun) a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock | - |
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| (noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: stock |
| brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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| brush | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) contact with something dangerous or undesirable | - |
| (noun) a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) | - |
| (noun) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle | - |
| (noun) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor | - |
| (noun) momentary contact | Synonyms: light touch |
| (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
| bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| buffalofish | (noun) any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley | Synonyms: buffalo fish |
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| (noun) large carp-like North American fish | - |
| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| bullrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bulrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bulrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bullrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bumph | (noun) reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring | Synonyms: bumf |
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| bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
| burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| burrfish | (noun) any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines | - |
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| bush | (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
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| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
| (noun) a large wilderness area | - |
| (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
| butch | (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
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| (noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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| (noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
| (noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
| butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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| butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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| bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
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| bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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| cabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| calabash | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: gourd |
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| (noun) a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | Synonyms: calabash pipe |
| (noun) tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds | Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete |
| (noun) round gourd of the calabash tree | - |
| (noun) Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits | Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria |
| calash | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash top, caleche |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: caleche |
| caliph | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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| camash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camass, camosh, quamash |
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| camosh | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camass, quamash |
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| cardinalfish | (noun) small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters | - |
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| cardiograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart | Synonyms: electrocardiograph |
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| (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: ballistocardiograph |
| cartouch | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouche |
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| casbah | (noun) an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located | Synonyms: kasbah |
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| cash | (noun) money in the form of bills or coins | Synonyms: hard cash, hard currency |
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| (noun) prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check | Synonyms: immediate payment |
| catarrh | (noun) inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus | - |
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| catch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: grab, snap, snatch |
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| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
| (noun) a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth | - |
| (noun) a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window | - |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: gimmick |
| (noun) a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) | - |
| (noun) anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) | - |
| (noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: haul |
| catfish | (noun) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | Synonyms: siluriform fish |
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| (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: wolf fish, wolffish |
| (noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: mudcat |
| ceilidh | (noun) an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling | - |
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| cenotaph | (noun) a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered | Synonyms: empty tomb |
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| cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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| chaetognath | (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: arrowworm |
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| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| challah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: hallah |
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| cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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| cheetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, chetah |
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| chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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| chenfish | (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: Genyonemus lineatus, kingfish, white croaker |
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| chetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah |
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| childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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| chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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| chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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| chromatograph | (noun) equipment that enables a sophisticated separation, e.g. gas chromatographic or liquid chromatographic separation. | - |
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| chromolithograph | (noun) a print made by chromolithography. | - |
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| chronograph | (noun) an accurate timer for recording time | - |
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| church | (noun) a service conducted in a house of worship | Synonyms: church service |
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| (noun) a place for public (especially Christian) worship | Synonyms: church building |
| (noun) one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship | Synonyms: Christian church |
| (noun) the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church | - |
| chutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, hutzpah |
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| cigarfish | (noun) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic | Synonyms: Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad |
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| cinch | (noun) a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps | - |
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| (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
| (noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: girth |
| clash | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, crash |
| (noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: friction |
| (noun) a state of conflict between colors | - |
| clench | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clinch |
| clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
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| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
| (noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
| (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
| clingfish | (noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
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| clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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| cloth | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: fabric, material, textile |
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| clothesbrush | (noun) a brush used for cleaning clothing | - |
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| clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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| clutch | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism | - |
| (noun) a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism | Synonyms: clutch pedal |
| (noun) a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand | Synonyms: clutch bag |
| (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: batch |
| (noun) a number of birds hatched at the same time | - |
| (noun) a tense critical situation | - |
| coach | (noun) a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver | Synonyms: coach-and-four, four-in-hand |
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| (noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: carriage, passenger car |
| (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
| (noun) a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) | Synonyms: private instructor, tutor |
| (noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: handler, manager |
| cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
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| codfish | (noun) major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached | Synonyms: cod |
| coelacanth | (noun) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa | Synonyms: Latimeria chalumnae |
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| cohosh | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: baneberry, herb Christopher |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| conch | (noun) any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip | - |
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| conchfish | (noun) found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch | Synonyms: Astropogon stellatus |
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| convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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| coppersmith | (noun) someone who makes articles from copper | - |
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| coprolith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: faecalith, fecalith, stercolith |
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| cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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| cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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| coronach | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: dirge, lament, requiem, threnody |
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| cosh | (noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people | Synonyms: blackjack, sap |
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| cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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| couch | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: lounge, sofa |
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| (noun) a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment | - |
| (noun) a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer | - |