acerola | (noun) acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C | Synonyms: barbados cherry, surinam cherry, West Indian cherry |
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(noun) tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries | Synonyms: barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra, Surinam cherry, West Indian cherry |
acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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acylglycerol | (noun) an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils | Synonyms: glyceride |
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bracero | (noun) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II | - |
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cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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(adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
cero | (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: kingfish, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
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(noun) large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil | Synonyms: cavalla, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla |
cerography | (noun) the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping. | - |
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ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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cicero | (noun) a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em | - |
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cicerone | (noun) a guide who conducts and informs sightseers | - |
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deglycerolise | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolize |
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deglycerolize | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolise |
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glycerogel | (noun) a medicated skin preparation made from glycerin and glycerinated gelatin | Synonyms: glycerogelatin |
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glycerogelatin | (noun) a medicated skin preparation made from glycerin and glycerinated gelatin | Synonyms: glycerogel |
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glycerol | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerin, glycerine |
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glycerole | (noun) a medicine made by mixing a substance in glycerin | Synonyms: glycerite |
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glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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rhinoceros | (noun) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout | Synonyms: rhino |
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sorcerous | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, witching, wizard, wizardly |
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ulcerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: cankerous, ulcerated |
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viceroy | (noun) showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller | Synonyms: Limenitis archippus |
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(noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: vicereine |
viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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viceroyship | (noun) the position of viceroy | - |
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