aboulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: abulia |
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aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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(adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
(adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: around |
(adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: around |
(adverb) in rotation or succession | - |
(adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: around |
(adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: almost, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
(adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: around |
amebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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amoebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic |
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arbour | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, bower, pergola |
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belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
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boucle | (noun) a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect | - |
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boudoir | (noun) a lady's bedroom or private sitting room | - |
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bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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(noun) a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance | - |
bouffe | (noun) opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken | Synonyms: comic opera, opera bouffe, opera comique |
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bougainvillea | (noun) any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions | - |
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bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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boughed | (adjective) having boughs (of trees) | - |
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boughless | (adjective) having no boughs (of trees) | - |
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boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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boule | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boulle, buhl |
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boulevard | (noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: avenue |
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boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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boulle | (noun) an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | Synonyms: boule, buhl |
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bounce | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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(noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounciness |
(noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bouncing |
(verb) eject from the premises | - |
(verb) hit something so that it bounces | - |
(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
(verb) leap suddenly | - |
(verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: jounce |
(verb) come back after being refused | - |
(verb) refuse to accept and send back | - |
bouncer | (noun) a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting | Synonyms: chucker-out |
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bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
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bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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(adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
(noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
bouncy | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: live, lively, resilient, springy |
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(adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, peppy, spirited, zippy |
bound | (adjective) confined by bonds | - |
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(adjective) secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form | - |
(adjective) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union | - |
(adjective) confined in the bowels | - |
(adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: destined |
(adjective) bound by an oath | - |
(adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bandaged |
(adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured |
(adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: destined |
(noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
(noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: boundary, limit |
(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: boundary, edge |
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
(verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
(verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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(noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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boundless | (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: limitless, unbounded |
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boundlessly | (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: immeasurably, infinitely |
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boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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bounteous | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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bounteously | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bountifully, plenteously, plentifully |
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bounteousness | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounty |
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bountied | (adjective) rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty | - |
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bountiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: plentiful |
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(adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
bountifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, plenteously, plentifully |
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bountifulness | (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bounty |
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bounty | (noun) (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely | Synonyms: bounteousness |
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(noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: amplitude, bountifulness |
(noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | Synonyms: premium |
bouquet | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: corsage, nosegay, posy |
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(noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
bourbon | (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels | - |
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bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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bourgeois | (adjective) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the middle class | - |
(adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: conservative, materialistic |
(noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
(noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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(noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
bourne | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourn |
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(noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourn |
bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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bouse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bowse |
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boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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bout | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bust, tear |
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(noun) a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) | - |
(noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: round, turn |
(noun) a period of illness | - |
boutique | (noun) a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry | Synonyms: dress shop |
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boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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(adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
bulbous | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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(adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulblike |
caribou | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer |
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debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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(verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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downbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally down | - |
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earthbound | (adjective) confined to the earth | - |
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(adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy |
eastbound | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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embouchure | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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fogbound | (adjective) enveloped in fog | - |
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gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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gibbous | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbose |
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(adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
gibbousness | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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(noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
(verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
(verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
(verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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hereabout | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabouts |
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hereabouts | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabout |
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hidebound | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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homebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: housebound, shut-in |
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(noun) people who are confined to their homes | - |
housebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: homebound, shut-in |
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icebound | (adjective) locked in by ice | - |
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inbound | (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inward |
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knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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(adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
(noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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(noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
(noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
(noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
(verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labor |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail |
(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, push, tug |
laboured | (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: labored, strained |
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(adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: heavy, labored |
labourer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, laborer, manual laborer |
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labouring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, toiling |
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laboursaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laborsaving |
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layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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marabou | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou stork, marabout |
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(noun) the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments | - |