| anuran | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
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| aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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| benzofuran | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: coumarone, cumarone |
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| brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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| bran | (noun) food prepared from the husks of cereal grains | - |
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| (noun) broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting | - |
| catamaran | (noun) a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck | - |
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| chiropteran | (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: bat |
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| ciliophoran | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliate, ciliated protozoan |
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| cran | (noun) a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring | - |
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| dipteran | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
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| ephemeropteran | (noun) short-lived insect | Synonyms: ephemerid |
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| furan | (noun) a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon | Synonyms: furane, furfuran |
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| furfuran | (noun) a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon | Synonyms: furan, furane |
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| gran | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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| hemipteran | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: bug, hemipteron, hemipterous insect |
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| homopteran | (noun) insects having membranous forewings and hind wings | Synonyms: homopterous insect |
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| hymenopteran | (noun) insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing | Synonyms: hymenopter, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect |
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| lepidopteran | (noun) insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | Synonyms: lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect |
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| mastigophoran | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophore |
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| mecopteran | (noun) any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera | - |
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| moneran | (noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneron |
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| neuropteran | (noun) insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins | Synonyms: neuropteron, neuropterous insect |
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| nitrofuran | (noun) derivative of furan used to inhibit bacterial growth | - |
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| onychophoran | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: peripatus, velvet worm |
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| orthopteran | (noun) any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: orthopteron, orthopterous insect |
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| pesantran | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantren |
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| plecopteran | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: stone fly, stonefly |
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| pogonophoran | (noun) slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom | Synonyms: beard worm |
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| poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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| proturan | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: telsontail |
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| saran | (noun) any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things | - |
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| sporran | (noun) a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders | - |
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| thyreophoran | (noun) armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs | Synonyms: suborder Thyreophora, Thyreophora |
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| trichopteran | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteron, trichopterous insect |
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| trimaran | (noun) a fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls | - |
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| varan | (noun) any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles | Synonyms: monitor, monitor lizard |
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| veteran | (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, warhorse |
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| (noun) a person who has served in the armed forces | Synonyms: ex-serviceman, vet |
| (noun) a serviceman who has seen considerable active service | Synonyms: veteran soldier |