capelan | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelin, caplin |
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celandine | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort |
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(noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
elan | (noun) enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness | - |
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(noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, flair, panache, style |
(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, zeal |
eland | (noun) either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes | - |
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foreland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: head, headland, promontory |
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(noun) land forming the forward margin of something | - |
freelance | (adjective) working for yourself | Synonyms: free-lance, self-employed |
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(adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, mercenary |
(noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person |
(verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
freelancer | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, independent, self-employed person |
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gamelan | (noun) a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs | - |
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homeland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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lepidomelane | (noun) a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
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melancholia | (noun) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears | - |
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melancholiac | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholic |
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melancholic | (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholy |
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(noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholiac |
melancholy | (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: somber, sombre |
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(adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholic |
(noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy | Synonyms: black bile |
(noun) a feeling of thoughtful sadness | - |
(noun) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed | - |
melange | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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melanin | (noun) insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers | - |
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melanise | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanize |
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(verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanize |
melanism | (noun) a condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin) | Synonyms: melanosis |
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melanize | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanise |
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(verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanise |
melanoblast | (noun) an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte | - |
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melanocyte | (noun) a cell in the basal layer of the epidermis that produces melanin under the control of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone | - |
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melanoderma | (noun) abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin | - |
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melanoma | (noun) any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes | Synonyms: malignant melanoma |
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melanosis | (noun) a condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin) | Synonyms: melanism |
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pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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psilomelane | (noun) a mineral consisting of hydrated basic oxide of manganese and barium; a source of manganese | - |
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rangeland | (noun) land suitable for grazing livestock | - |
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tableland | (noun) a relatively flat highland | Synonyms: plateau |
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tideland | (noun) land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide | - |
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wasteland | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: barren, waste |
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