| multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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| multiversity | (noun) a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers | - |
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| multivitamin | (noun) a pill or tablet containing several vitamins | Synonyms: multivitamin pill |
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| mum | (noun) secrecy | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mumma, mummy |
| (noun) of China | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum morifolium, Dendranthema grandifloruom, florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum |
| mumble | (noun) a soft indistinct utterance | - |
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| mumbler | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: murmurer, mutterer |
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| mumbling | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: gumming |
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| (noun) indistinct enunciation | - |
| mumma | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mummy |
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| mummer | (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mime, mimer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
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| mummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: flummery |
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| mummichog | (noun) silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: Fundulus heteroclitus |
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| mummification | (noun) embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | - |
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| (noun) a condition resembling that of a mummy | - |
| (noun) (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color | Synonyms: cold gangrene, dry gangrene, mumification necrosis |
| mummy | (noun) a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt) | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma |
| mumps | (noun) an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands | Synonyms: epidemic parotitis |
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| mumpsimus | (noun) a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable | - |
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| munch | (noun) a large bite | - |
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| muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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| mundaneness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundanity, sophistication, worldliness |
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| (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundanity, ordinariness |
| mundanity | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, sophistication, worldliness |
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| (noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, ordinariness |
| mung | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
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| (noun) erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: mung bean, mung bean plant, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata |
| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
| munggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
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| (noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
| municipality | (noun) people living in a town or city having local self-government | - |
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| (noun) an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government | - |
| munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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| muniments | (noun) deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land | - |
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| munition | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: arms, implements of war, weaponry, weapons system |
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| (noun) defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it | Synonyms: fortification |
| (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: ordnance, ordnance store |
| munj | (noun) tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | Synonyms: munja, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja |
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| munja | (noun) tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | Synonyms: munj, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja |
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| munjeet | (noun) perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient | Synonyms: Indian madder, Rubia cordifolia |
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| muntjac | (noun) small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark | Synonyms: barking deer |
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| muon | (noun) an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino | Synonyms: mu-meson, negative muon |
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| mural | (noun) a painting that is applied to a wall surface | Synonyms: wall painting |
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| muralist | (noun) a painter of murals | - |
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| muramidase | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: lysozyme |
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| murder | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, slaying |
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| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
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| murderer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, manslayer |
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| murderess | (noun) a woman murderer | - |
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| murderousness | (noun) cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder | - |
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| (noun) a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses | - |
| murine | (noun) a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae | - |
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| murk | (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murkiness |
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| murkiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, muddiness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murk |
| murmur | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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| (noun) a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant | Synonyms: murmur vowel |
| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves | Synonyms: cardiac murmur, heart murmur |
| murmuration | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
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| murmurer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, mutterer |
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| murmuring | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, mutter, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
| murphy | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, potato, spud, tater, white potato |
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| murrain | (noun) any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague | - |
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| murre | (noun) black-and-white diving bird of northern seas | - |
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| muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscadine | (noun) dull-purple grape of southern United States | Synonyms: bullace grape |
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| (noun) native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties | Synonyms: Vitis rotundifolia |
| muscat | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel |
| (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muskat |
| muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
| muscle | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew |
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| (noun) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) | - |
| (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: musculus |
| (noun) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells | Synonyms: muscular tissue |
| (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscleman |
| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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| musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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| muscleman | (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscle |
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| (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder |
| muscovite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium | - |
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| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| musculus | (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: muscle |
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| muse | (noun) the source of an artist's inspiration | - |
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| muser | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, ponderer, ruminator |
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| musette | (noun) a small bagpipe formerly popular in France | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe |
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| museum | (noun) a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value | - |
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| mush | (noun) a journey by dogsled | - |
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| (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, slop, treacle |
| (noun) cornmeal boiled in water | Synonyms: cornmeal mush |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: pulp |
| musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
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| mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
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| (noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
| (noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
| (noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
| music | (noun) musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) | - |
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| (noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: medicine |
| (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: euphony |
| (noun) (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) | - |
| (noun) an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner | - |
| musical | (noun) a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing | Synonyms: musical comedy, musical theater |
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| musicality | (noun) the property of sounding like music | Synonyms: musicalness |
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| musicalness | (noun) the property of sounding like music | Synonyms: musicality |
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| musician | (noun) artist who composes or conducts music as a profession | - |
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| (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, player |
| musicianship | (noun) artistry in performing music | - |
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| musicologist | (noun) a student of musicology | - |
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| musicology | (noun) the scholarly and scientific study of music | - |
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| musing | (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
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| musjid | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | Synonyms: masjid |
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| musk | (noun) the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer | - |
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| (noun) an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative | - |
| muskat | (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muscat |
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| muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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| (noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
| musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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| musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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| musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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| (noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
| muskiness | (noun) having the olfactory properties of musk | - |
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| muskmelon | (noun) the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers | Synonyms: sweet melon |
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| (noun) any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell | Synonyms: Cucumis melo, sweet melon, sweet melon vine |
| muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
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| (noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
| muskwood | (noun) musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Olearia argophylla |
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| muslin | (noun) plain-woven cotton fabric | - |
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| musnud | (noun) a seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes | - |
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| musophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of mice | - |
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| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| muss | (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, messiness, mussiness |
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| mussel | (noun) marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | - |
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| (noun) black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine | - |
| mussiness | (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, messiness, muss |
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| mussitation | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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| must | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, mustiness |
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| (noun) grape juice before or during fermentation | - |
| (noun) a necessary or essential thing | - |
| mustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: moustache |
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| mustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, moustachio |
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