appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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(noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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(noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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(adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
(noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
arcella | (noun) an amoeba-like protozoan with a chitinous shell resembling an umbrella | - |
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avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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(noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
cancellation | (noun) the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement | - |
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(noun) the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void | - |
canella | (noun) highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic | Synonyms: canella bark, white cinnamon |
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carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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(noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
(noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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(noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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chlorella | (noun) any alga of the genus Chlorella | - |
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christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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columella | (noun) a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal | - |
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constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
(verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
constellation | (noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: configuration |
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(noun) a configuration of stars as seen from the earth | - |
crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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crenellation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenelation |
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(noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenelation |
dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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fella | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
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fellah | (noun) an agricultural laborer in Arab countries | - |
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fellate | (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, go down on, suck |
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fellatio | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellation |
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fellation | (noun) oral stimulation of the penis | Synonyms: fellatio |
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fenestella | (noun) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault | Synonyms: lunette |
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flagellant | (noun) a person who whips himself as a religious penance | - |
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(noun) a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification | - |
flagellate | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike |
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(noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore |
(verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
flagellated | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellate, lash-like, whiplike |
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flagellation | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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(noun) beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation | - |
fraxinella | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, dittany, gas plant |
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gentianella | (noun) low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Gentiana acaulis |
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glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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glabellar | (adjective) of or relating to the glabella | - |
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helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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interpellation | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpolation, interposition |
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(noun) (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy | - |
interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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jellaba | (noun) a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa | - |
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klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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(noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
(noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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miscellanea | (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
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miscellaneous | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, mixed, motley, sundry |
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(adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, multifaceted, multifarious |
miscellany | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, garland |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
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nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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ocellated | (adjective) having ocelli | - |
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paella | (noun) saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken | - |
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panetella | (noun) a long slender cigar | Synonyms: panatela, panetela |
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parcellation | (noun) the division into parcels | - |
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patella | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, kneepan |
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patellar | (adjective) near or relating to the patella or kneecap | - |
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pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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propellant | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellent, propelling, propulsive |
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(noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellent |
pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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(adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
(noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
(noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
(noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
roccella | (noun) a source of the dye archil and of litmus | Synonyms: Roccella tinctoria |
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rubella | (noun) a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester | Synonyms: epidemic roseola, German measles, three-day measles |
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salmonella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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sellable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, vendable, vendible |
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sequella | (noun) a secondary consequence | - |
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shellac | (noun) a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood | Synonyms: shellac varnish |
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(noun) lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white | - |
(verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellack |
shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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stellar | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: astral |
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(adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, starring |
stellate | (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, radiate |
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tarantella | (noun) a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons | Synonyms: tarantelle |
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(noun) music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella | - |
tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
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(verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
tessellated | (adjective) decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic | - |
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(adjective) having a checkered or mottled appearance | - |
tessellation | (noun) the act of adorning with mosaic | - |
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(noun) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern | - |
umbellar | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellate |
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umbellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellar |
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(adjective) resembling an umbel in form | Synonyms: umbel-like |
umbrella | (adjective) covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups | - |
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(noun) a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets | - |
(noun) having the function of uniting a group of similar things | - |
(noun) a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy | - |
umbrellalike | (adjective) resembling an umbrella | - |
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umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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untellable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable |
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varicella | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: chickenpox |
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vitellarium | (noun) A modified part of the ovary that in many flatworms and rotifers produces yolk-filled cells serving to nourish the true eggs. | - |
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vorticella | (noun) any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk | - |
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zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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