| pecan | (noun) smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | - |
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| (noun) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts | Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree |
| (noun) wood of a pecan tree | - |
| peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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| peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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| peck | (noun) a light kiss | - |
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| (noun) bite by a bird | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | - |
| pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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| (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
| peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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| pecopteris | (noun) Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb | - |
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| pecs | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
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| pectin | (noun) any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams | - |
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| pectoral | (noun) an adornment worn on the chest or breast | Synonyms: pectoral medallion |
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| (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
| pectoralis | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral, pectoral muscle |
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| pectus | (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: chest, thorax |
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| peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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| peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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| peculiarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| (noun) an odd or unusual characteristic | Synonyms: distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |