anhedonia | (noun) an inability to experience pleasure | - |
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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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calcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: chalcedony |
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chalcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: calcedony |
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cotyledon | (noun) embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants | Synonyms: seed leaf |
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dicotyledon | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, exogen, magnoliopsid |
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dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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hedonic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonistic |
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hedonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | - |
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(noun) the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle | - |
hedonist | (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: pagan, pleasure seeker |
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hedonistic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonic |
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monocotyledon | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: endogen, liliopsid, monocot |
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monocotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies | - |
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parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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