guacamole | (noun) a dip made of mashed avocado mixed with chopped onions and other seasonings | - |
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guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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guaiac | (noun) hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum | Synonyms: guaiacum, lignum vitae |
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guaiacum | (noun) hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum | Synonyms: guaiac, lignum vitae |
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(noun) medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree | - |
guama | (noun) tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations | Synonyms: Inga laurina |
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guan | (noun) any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food | - |
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guanabana | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: soursop |
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guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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guanine | (noun) a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine | Synonyms: G |
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guano | (noun) the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer | - |
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guanosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: deoxyguanosine |
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guar | (noun) drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material | Synonyms: cluster bean, Cyamopsis psoraloides, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus |
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guarani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Paraguay; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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guaranine | (noun) Guaranine is the name used to describe caffeine derived from the guarana plant. | - |
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guarantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: warrant, warrantee, warranty |
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(noun) an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true | - |
(noun) a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults | Synonyms: guaranty |
guarantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: surety, warranter, warrantor |
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guaranty | (noun) a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults | Synonyms: guarantee |
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guard | (noun) a position on a basketball team | - |
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(noun) the duty of serving as a sentry | Synonyms: guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go |
(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles | - |
(noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: precaution, safeguard |
(noun) a device designed to prevent injury or accidents | Synonyms: safety, safety device |
(noun) a posture of defence in boxing or fencing | - |
(noun) a military unit serving to protect some place or person | - |
(noun) the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) a person who keeps watch over something or someone | - |
(noun) the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team | - |
guardhouse | (noun) a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained | - |
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guardian | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, protector, shielder |
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guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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(noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
guardrail | (noun) a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety | Synonyms: safety rail |
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guardroom | (noun) a room used by soldiers on guard | - |
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(noun) a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined | - |
guardsman | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a unit called `the guard' or `guards' | - |
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guava | (noun) tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies | - |
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(noun) small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit | Synonyms: guava bush, Psidium guajava, true guava |
(noun) small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit | Synonyms: Psidium littorale, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava |
guayule | (noun) much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber | Synonyms: Parthenium argentatum |
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gubbins | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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guck | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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gudgeon | (noun) small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: Gobio gobio |
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(noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: goby |
guenon | (noun) small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face | Synonyms: guenon monkey |
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guerdon | (noun) a reward or payment | - |
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guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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gueridon | (noun) a small round table | - |
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guerilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerrilla, insurgent, irregular |
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guerrilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, insurgent, irregular |
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guess | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guessing, guesswork, shot |
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(noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
guesser | (noun) a person who guesses | - |
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guessing | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guesswork, shot |
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guesstimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guestimate |
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guesswork | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot |
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guest | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: client, node |
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(noun) a visitor to whom hospitality is extended | Synonyms: invitee |
(noun) a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. | - |
guesthouse | (noun) a house separate from the main house; for housing guests | - |
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guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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guestroom | (noun) a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests | - |
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guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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guff | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, hogwash, rot |
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guffaw | (noun) a burst of deep loud hearty laughter | Synonyms: belly laugh |
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guib | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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guidance | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, steering |
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(noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: steering |
(noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, direction |
guide | (noun) a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something | - |
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(noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: template, templet |
(noun) something that offers basic information or instruction | Synonyms: guidebook |
(noun) someone employed to conduct others | Synonyms: usher |
(noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: pathfinder, scout |
(noun) someone who shows the way by leading or advising | - |
guidebook | (noun) something that offers basic information or instruction | Synonyms: guide |
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guideline | (noun) a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior | Synonyms: guidepost, rule of thumb |
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(noun) a detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action | Synonyms: road map |
(noun) a light line that is used in lettering to help align the letters | - |
guidepost | (noun) a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior | Synonyms: guideline, rule of thumb |
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(noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: signpost |
guideword | (noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: catchword, guide word |
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guild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, lodge, order, social club, society |
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guilder | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, gulden |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, gulden |
guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
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guile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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(noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: craftiness |
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
guillemot | (noun) small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas | - |
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guilloche | (noun) an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands | - |
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guillotine | (noun) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | - |
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(noun) closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | Synonyms: closure by compartment |
guilt | (noun) remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense | Synonyms: guilt feelings, guilt trip, guilty conscience |
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(noun) the state of having committed an offense | Synonyms: guiltiness |
guiltiness | (noun) the state of having committed an offense | Synonyms: guilt |
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guiltlessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
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guimpe | (noun) a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress | - |
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(noun) a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit | - |
guinea | (noun) a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world | Synonyms: guinea fowl, Numida meleagris |
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(noun) a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings | - |
guise | (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: pretence, pretense, pretext |
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guitar | (noun) a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking | - |
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guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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gula | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, overeating |
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gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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gulch | (noun) a narrow gorge with a stream running through it | Synonyms: flume |
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gulden | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, guilder |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, guilder |
gulf | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnect, disconnection |
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(noun) a deep wide chasm | - |
(noun) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay | - |
gulfweed | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: sargasso, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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gull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: sea gull, seagull |
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(noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
gullet | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, oesophagus |
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gullibility | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: credulousness |
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gully | (noun) deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour) | - |
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gulp | (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, draught, swig |
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(noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulping |
gulper | (noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: guzzler |
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gulping | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: guzzling, swilling |
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(noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulp |
gulyas | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: goulash, Hungarian goulash |
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gum | (noun) the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth | Synonyms: gingiva |
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(noun) a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing | Synonyms: chewing gum |
(noun) any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum | Synonyms: gum tree |
(noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gumwood |
(noun) any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying | - |
(noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: glue, mucilage |
gumbo | (noun) a soup or stew thickened with okra pods | - |
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(noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews | Synonyms: okra |
(noun) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant |
(noun) any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water | Synonyms: gumbo soil |
gumboil | (noun) a boil or abscess on the gums | - |
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gumdrop | (noun) a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals | - |
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gumma | (noun) a small rubbery granuloma that is characteristic of an advanced stage of syphilis | - |
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gumminess | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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gumming | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: mumbling |
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gummite | (noun) a gummy orange mixture of uranium oxides and silicates occurring naturally in the hydration and oxidation of pitchblende | - |
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gummosis | (noun) pathological production of gummy exudates in citrus and various stone-fruit trees | - |
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(noun) disease of citrus trees caused by the fungus Phytophthora citrophthora | Synonyms: brown rot gummosis |
gumption | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand |
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(noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, horse sense, mother wit, sense |
gumshield | (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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gumshoe | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber |
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(noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, hawkshaw |
gumweed | (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, rosinweed, tarweed |
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gumwood | (noun) wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum | Synonyms: gum |
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gun | (noun) the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies | - |
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(noun) a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) | - |
(noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance |
(noun) a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine | Synonyms: grease gun |
(noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, throttle |
(noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
(noun) a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | Synonyms: gunman |