| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| samara | (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key, key fruit |
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| samarium | (noun) a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite | Synonyms: atomic number 62, Sm |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| samba | (noun) a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa | - |
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| (noun) a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers | - |
| (noun) music composed for dancing the samba | - |
| (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, obechi, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
| sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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| sambuca | (noun) an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice | - |
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| sambur | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambar |
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| samekh | (noun) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sameness | (noun) the quality of being alike | - |
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| (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, monotony |
| samiel | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: simoom, simoon |
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| samisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: shamisen |
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| samite | (noun) a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages | - |
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| samizdat | (noun) a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature | Synonyms: underground press |
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| samosa | (noun) small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot | - |
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| samovar | (noun) a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea | - |
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| sampan | (noun) an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars | - |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sample | (noun) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole | - |
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| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling |
| (noun) all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class | - |
| sampler | (noun) a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches | - |
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| (noun) an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something | Synonyms: sampling station |
| (noun) an assortment of various samples | - |
| (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: taste-tester, taste tester, taster |
| sampling | (noun) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study | - |
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| (noun) measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) | - |
| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample, sample distribution |
| samsara | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth | - |
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| samurai | (noun) feudal Japanese military aristocracy | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | - |