agua | (noun) largest known toad species; native to Central America; valuable destroyer of insect pests | Synonyms: agua toad, Bufo marinus |
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aguacate | (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear |
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ague | (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute, acute accent |
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(noun) a fit of shivering or shaking | - |
(noun) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria | Synonyms: chills and fever |
agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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(noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
aguish | (adjective) affected by ague | - |
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anthropophagus | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, cannibal, man-eater |
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anticoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant medication, decoagulant |
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anticoagulation | (noun) the administration of an anticoagulant drug to retard coagulation of the blood | - |
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anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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asparagus | (noun) edible young shoots of the asparagus plant | - |
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(noun) plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable | Synonyms: Asparagus officinales, edible asparagus |
baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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choragus | (noun) (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus | - |
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coagulable | (adjective) capable of coagulating and becoming thick | - |
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coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulator |
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coagulase | (noun) an enzyme that induces coagulation | - |
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coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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(verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: clot |
(verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: clot |
coagulated | (adjective) changed into a solid mass | Synonyms: solidified |
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(adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, curdled, grumose, grumous |
coagulation | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, curdling |
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coagulator | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation | Synonyms: coagulant |
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coagulum | (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | Synonyms: clot |
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colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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decoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication |
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esophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: gorge, gullet, oesophagus |
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jagua | (noun) tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit | Synonyms: Genipa Americana, genipap fruit, marmalade box |
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jaguar | (noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, panther, Panthera onca |
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jaguarondi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat |
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jaguarundi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi cat |
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kagura | (noun) a stately dance of the Shinto religion that now forms a part of Japanese village festivals. | - |
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laguna | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, lagune |
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lagune | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: lagoon, laguna |
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league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
(noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
(verb) unite to form a league | - |
maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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(noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
magus | (noun) a magician or sorcerer of ancient times | - |
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(noun) a member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians | - |
mahagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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(noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahoe, majagua |
majagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, purau |
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(noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, mahoe |
mikagura | (noun) a type of formal ritual Shinto kagura dance. | - |
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oesophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gorge, gullet |
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photocoagulation | (noun) surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina | - |
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photocoagulator | (noun) surgical instrument containing a laser for use in photocoagulation | - |
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plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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(noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
(noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
(noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
(noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
(verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |
plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
(adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguily, plaguy |
plaguily | (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguey, plaguy |
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plaguy | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguey, plaguily |
saguaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, sahuaro |
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salmagundi | (noun) cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing | - |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety |
sarcophagus | (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) | - |
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seagull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: gull, sea gull |
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taguan | (noun) East Indian flying squirrel | Synonyms: flying cat, flying marmot, Petaurista petaurista |
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thermocoagulation | (noun) congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current) | - |
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tragus | (noun) a small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear | - |
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vague | (adjective) not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished | Synonyms: undefined |
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(adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, shadowy, wispy |
(adjective) not clearly expressed or understood | Synonyms: obscure |
vaguely | (adverb) in a vague way | Synonyms: mistily |
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vagueness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning | - |
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(noun) indistinctness of shape or character | - |
vagus | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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