| acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| ceramic | (adjective) of or relating to or made from a ceramic | - |
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| (noun) an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures | - |
| ceramicist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramist, potter, thrower |
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| ceramics | (noun) the art of making and decorating pottery | - |
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| ceramist | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, potter, thrower |
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| ceras | (noun) one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills | - |
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| cerastes | (noun) highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye | Synonyms: Cerastes cornutus, horned asp, horned viper, sand viper |
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| cerate | (noun) a hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin | - |
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| ceratin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein that occurs in the outer layer of the skin and in horny tissues such as hair, feathers, nails, and hooves | Synonyms: keratin |
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| ceratodus | (noun) extinct lungfish | - |
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| ceratopsian | (noun) any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia | Synonyms: horned dinosaur |
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| ceratosaur | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaurus |
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| ceratosaurus | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaur |
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| ceratozamia | (noun) a small cycad of the genus Ceratozamia having a short scaly woody trunk and fernlike foliage and woody cones; Mexico | - |
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| chelicera | (noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing | - |
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| cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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| chelicerate | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: cheliceral |
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| dinoceras | (noun) a variety of dinocerate | Synonyms: uintathere |
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| dinocerate | (noun) an extinct ungulate | - |
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| eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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| (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
| (verb) remove the contents of | - |
| (verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
| (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
| evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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| (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
| (noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
| glyceraldehyde | (noun) a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars | Synonyms: glyceric aldehyde |
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| incarcerate | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| incarceration | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, imprisonment |
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| lacerate | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerated, mangled, torn |
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| (adjective) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn | Synonyms: lacerated |
| (verb) cut or tear irregularly | - |
| (verb) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress | - |
| lacerated | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, mangled, torn |
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| (adjective) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn | Synonyms: lacerate |
| laceration | (noun) the act of lacerating | - |
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| (noun) a torn ragged wound | - |
| macerate | (noun) a macerated substance, sometimes used to infuse vodka with flavor. | - |
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| (verb) soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result | - |
| (verb) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking | - |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, waste |
| (verb) separate into constituents by soaking | - |
| maceration | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness |
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| (noun) softening due to soaking or steeping | - |
| macerative | (adjective) accompanied by or characterized by maceration | - |
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| protoceratops | (noun) small horned dinosaur | - |
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| triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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| ulcerate | (verb) affect with an ulcer | - |
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| (verb) undergo ulceration | - |
| ulcerated | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: cankerous, ulcerous |
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| ulceration | (noun) the process of ulcer formation; the process of becoming ulcerated | - |
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| (noun) a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue | Synonyms: ulcer |
| ulcerative | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by ulceration | - |
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| viscera | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, innards, insides |
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| visceral | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: splanchnic |
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| (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, nonrational |
| viscerally | (adverb) in the viscera | - |
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| (adverb) in an unreasoning visceral manner | Synonyms: unreasoningly |