acorn | (noun) fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base | - |
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barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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(noun) a grain of barley | - |
bicorn | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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(noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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bicornuous | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate |
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broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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corn | (noun) something sentimental or trite | - |
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(noun) ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food | Synonyms: edible corn |
(noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn | Synonyms: corn whiskey, corn whisky |
(noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: Indian corn, maize, Zea mays |
(noun) (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) | - |
(noun) the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal | - |
(noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: clavus |
(verb) preserve with large-grained rock salt | - |
(verb) feed (cattle) with corn | - |
cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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corncob | (noun) the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn | Synonyms: corn cob |
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corncrake | (noun) common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields | Synonyms: Crex crex, land rail |
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corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
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cornea | (noun) the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera | - |
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corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
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corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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(noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
(noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
(noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
(noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
(noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
(noun) a remote area | - |
(noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
(noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
(noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
(verb) turn a corner | - |
(verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: tree |
(verb) gain control over | - |
cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
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cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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(noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
cornet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: horn, trump, trumpet |
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cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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corneum | (noun) the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off | Synonyms: horny layer, stratum corneum |
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cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
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cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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(noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
cornhusk | (noun) the husk of an ear of corn | - |
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cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
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(noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
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(noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
(noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
(verb) furnish with a cornice | - |
cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
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cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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cornu | (noun) (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape | - |
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cornucopia | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: profuseness, profusion, richness |
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(noun) a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity | Synonyms: horn of plenty |
corny | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous |
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longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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peppercorn | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: pepper |
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picornavirus | (noun) a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat | - |
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popcorn | (noun) small kernels of corn exploded by heat | - |
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(noun) corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat | Synonyms: Zea mays everta |
scorn | (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: contempt |
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(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, disdain |
(verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
(verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
scorned | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, detested, hated |
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scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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scornful | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting |
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scornfully | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, contumeliously, disdainfully |
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tricorn | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorne |
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tricorne | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorn |
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unicorn | (noun) an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead | - |
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