| abulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: aboulia |
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| abulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: aboulic |
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| acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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| acetabulum | (noun) the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint | Synonyms: cotyloid cavity |
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| agammaglobulinemia | (noun) a rare immunological disorder characterized by the virtual absence of gamma globulin in the blood and consequent susceptibility to infection | - |
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| ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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| ambulacrum | (noun) one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located | - |
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| ambulance | (noun) a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals | - |
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| ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| ambulation | (noun) walking about | - |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| (noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister) | - |
| bibulous | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: boozy, drunken, sottish |
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| bulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb, lightbulb |
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| (noun) a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end) | - |
| (noun) a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ | - |
| (noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: medulla, medulla oblongata |
| (noun) a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure | - |
| (noun) anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop | - |
| bulbaceous | (adjective) producing or growing from bulbs | - |
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| bulbar | (adjective) involving the medulla oblongata | - |
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| bulbed | (adjective) having a bulb | - |
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| bulbil | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulblet |
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| bulblet | (noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers | Synonyms: bulbil |
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| bulblike | (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulbous |
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| bulbous | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulblike |
| bulbul | (noun) nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry | - |
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| bulge | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: pouch, protrude |
| (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulk |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bag |
| bulghur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulgur, bulgur wheat |
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| bulginess | (noun) the property possessed by a rounded convexity | Synonyms: roundedness |
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| bulging | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: convex |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant |
| bulgur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulghur, bulgur wheat |
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| bulgy | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, protuberant |
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| bulimarexia | (noun) a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food; characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting | Synonyms: binge-purge syndrome, binge-vomit syndrome, bulimia nervosa |
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| bulimia | (noun) pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions) | - |
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| (noun) a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation | Synonyms: binge-eating syndrome |
| bulimic | (adjective) suffering from bulimia | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from bulimia | - |
| bulk | (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: mass, volume |
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| (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: majority |
| (noun) the property possessed by a large mass | - |
| (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulge |
| (verb) stick out or up | - |
| (verb) to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet | - |
| bulkhead | (noun) a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
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| bulkiness | (noun) an unwieldy largeness | Synonyms: massiveness |
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| bulky | (adjective) of large size for its weight | - |
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| bull | (noun) a serious and ludicrous blunder | - |
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| (noun) uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle | - |
| (noun) mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle | - |
| (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
| (noun) a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) | Synonyms: papal bull |
| (noun) the center of a target | Synonyms: bull's eye |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: cop, copper, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later | - |
| (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, Samson, strapper |
| (verb) advance in price | - |
| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat |
| (verb) try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying | - |
| (verb) push or force | Synonyms: bull through |
| bulla | (noun) the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull | - |
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| (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, blister |
| bullace | (noun) small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters | Synonyms: Prunus insititia |
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| bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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| bullbat | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: mosquito hawk, nighthawk |
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| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| bulldog | (noun) a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting | Synonyms: English bulldog |
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| (verb) attack viciously and ferociously | - |
| (verb) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo | - |
| bulldoze | (verb) flatten with or as if with a bulldozer | - |
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| bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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| bullet | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: fastball, heater, hummer, smoke |
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| (noun) a projectile that is fired from a gun | Synonyms: slug |
| (noun) a high-speed passenger train | Synonyms: bullet train |
| bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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| bulletin | (noun) a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast) | - |
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| (verb) make public by bulletin | - |
| bulletproof | (adjective) not penetrable by bullets | - |
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| (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: ironclad, unassailable, unshakable, watertight |
| (verb) make bulletproof | - |
| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| bullfrog | (noun) largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice | Synonyms: Rana catesbeiana |
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| bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
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| (noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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| bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
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| bullion | (noun) gold or silver in bars or ingots | - |
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| (noun) a mass of precious metal | - |
| bullish | (adjective) expecting a rise in prices | - |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| bullnose | (noun) a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front | Synonyms: bullnosed plane |
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| bullock | (noun) castrated bull | Synonyms: steer |
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| (noun) young bull | - |
| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| bullpen | (noun) a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily | Synonyms: detention cell, detention centre |
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| (noun) a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game | - |
| bullring | (noun) a stadium where bullfights take place | - |
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| bullrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bulrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bullshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
| bullshot | (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme | - |
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| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| bully | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
| (noun) a hired thug | - |
| (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, swagger |
| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| bullyboy | (noun) a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
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| bullying | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: blustery |
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| (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: intimidation |
| bullyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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| bulrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bullrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bulwark | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: rampart, wall |
| (noun) a fencelike structure around a deck | - |
| (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| confabulation | (noun) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered | - |
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| (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze |
| constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| discombobulated | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: disconcerted |
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| discombobulation | (noun) a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused | Synonyms: confusion |
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| ebullience | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: enthusiasm, exuberance |
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| ebullient | (adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: exuberant, high-spirited |
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| ebulliently | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: expansively, exuberantly |
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| ebullition | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, effusion, gush, outburst |
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| fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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| fabulous | (adjective) barely credible | - |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing | Synonyms: fab |
| (adjective) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity | Synonyms: mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological |
| fabulously | (adverb) exceedingly; extremely | Synonyms: fantastically, incredibly |
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| fantabulous | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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| fibula | (noun) the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: calf bone |
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| flashbulb | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashgun, photoflash |
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| funambulism | (noun) walking on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walking |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| galbulus | (noun) the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree | - |
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| garambulla | (noun) small berrylike fruit | - |
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| (noun) arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit | Synonyms: garambulla cactus, Myrtillocactus geometrizans |
| globular | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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| globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| globule | (noun) a small globe or ball | - |
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| globulin | (noun) a family of proteins found in blood and milk and muscle and in plant seed | - |
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