| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acrocarp | (noun) a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) | Synonyms: acrocarpous moss |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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| angiocarp | (noun) tree bearing fruit enclosed in a shell or involucre or husk | - |
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| angiocarpic | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpous |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| arpeggio | (noun) a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously | - |
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| arpent | (noun) a former French unit of area; equal approximately to an acre | - |
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| ascocarp | (noun) mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus | - |
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| ascocarpous | (adjective) of or relating to ascocarps | - |
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| basidiocarp | (noun) the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells | - |
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| burglarproof | (adjective) secure against burglary | - |
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| cardsharp | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| carp | (noun) any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised | - |
| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: cavil, chicane |
| carpal | (adjective) of or relating to the wrist | - |
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| (noun) any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates | Synonyms: carpal bone, wrist bone |
| carpel | (noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil | - |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carpenter | (noun) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects | - |
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| (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
| carpenteria | (noun) California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers | Synonyms: Carpenteria californica |
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| carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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| carper | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: niggler |
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| carpet | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpeting, rug |
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| (noun) a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet | - |
| (verb) cover with a carpet | - |
| (verb) cover completely, as if with a carpet | - |
| (verb) form a carpet-like cover (over) | - |
| carpetbag | (adjective) following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers | - |
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| (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbagging |
| (noun) traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century | - |
| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| carpeted | (adjective) covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| carpeting | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpet, rug |
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| carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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| carping | (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: faultfinding |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| carpophore | (noun) a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel | - |
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| carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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| carpospore | (noun) a nonmotile spore of red algae | - |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| carpus | (noun) a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones | Synonyms: articulatio radiocarpea, radiocarpal joint, wrist, wrist joint |
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| cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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| dipterocarp | (noun) tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae | - |
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| earphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earpiece, headphone, phone |
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| earpiece | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, headphone, phone |
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| earplug | (noun) a plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise | - |
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| (noun) an earphone that is inserted into the ear canal | - |
| endocarp | (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: pit, stone |
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| epicarp | (noun) outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape | Synonyms: exocarp |
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| epicarpal | (adjective) of or relating to the epicarp | - |
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| escarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarpment, protective embankment, scarp |
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| escarpment | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, protective embankment, scarp |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: scarp |
| exocarp | (noun) outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape | Synonyms: epicarp |
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| garpike | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garfish, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| harp | (noun) a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade | - |
| (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ |
| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) play the harp | - |
| harper | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harpist |
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| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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| (verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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| harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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| harpy | (noun) large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America | Synonyms: Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle |
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| (noun) any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes | Synonyms: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat |
| (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: hellcat, vixen |
| mascarpone | (noun) soft mild Italian cream cheese | - |
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| mericarp | (noun) a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity | - |
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| mesocarp | (noun) the middle layer of a pericarp | - |
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| metacarpal | (adjective) of or relating to the metacarpus | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the hand between the wrist and fingers | Synonyms: metacarpal bone |
| metacarpus | (noun) the part of the hand between the carpus and phalanges | - |
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| monocarp | (noun) a plant that bears fruit once and dies | Synonyms: monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant |
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| monocarpic | (adjective) dying after bearing fruit only once | - |
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| parthenocarpy | (noun) (botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds | - |
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| pericarp | (noun) the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary | Synonyms: seed vessel |
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| pilocarpine | (noun) cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma | - |
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| pleurocarp | (noun) a moss having the archegonium or antheridium on a short side branch rather than the main stalk | Synonyms: pleurocarpous moss |
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| pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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| podocarp | (noun) any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed | - |
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| pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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| scarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, escarpment, protective embankment |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: escarpment |
| scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| schizocarp | (noun) a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed | - |
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| sharp | (adjective) having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
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| (adjective) (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone | - |
| (adjective) keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point | - |
| (adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: crisp |
| (adjective) quick and forceful | - |
| (adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing |
| (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, needlelike |
| (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, shrewd |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous |
| (adjective) very sudden and in great amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, tart |
| (noun) a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point | - |
| (noun) a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named | - |
| (adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: acutely, sharply |
| sharpen | (verb) become sharp or sharper | - |
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| (verb) make crisp or more crisp and precise | - |
| (verb) raise the pitch of (musical notes) | - |
| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: heighten |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, taper |
| (verb) make sharp or sharper | - |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper | - |
| sharpened | (adjective) having the point made sharp | - |
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| (adjective) made sharp or sharper | - |
| sharpener | (noun) any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper | - |
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| sharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| sharpie | (noun) a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
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| (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpy |
| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpy |
| sharply | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: aggressively |
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| (adverb) in a well delineated manner | Synonyms: crisply |
| (adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: acutely, sharp |
| (adverb) very suddenly and to a great degree | Synonyms: precipitously |
| sharpness | (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: asperity |
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| (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: keenness |
| (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, pungency, raciness |
| (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: distinctness |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: edge |
| (noun) the quality of being keenly and painfully felt | - |
| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, keenness |
| sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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| sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
| (noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
| sharpy | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie |
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| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie |
| spearpoint | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearhead |
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| sporocarp | (noun) specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia | Synonyms: spore case |
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| streptocarpus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses | - |
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| sugarplum | (noun) any of various small sugary candies | - |
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| syncarp | (noun) fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple | Synonyms: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit |
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| syncarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels | - |
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| tarp | (noun) waterproofed canvas | Synonyms: tarpaulin |
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