| abbey | (noun) a monastery ruled by an abbot | - |
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| (noun) a convent ruled by an abbess | - |
| (noun) a church associated with a monastery or convent | - |
| abeyance | (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: suspension |
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| abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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| alley | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alleyway, back street |
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| (noun) a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins | Synonyms: bowling alley, skittle alley |
| alleyway | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alley, back street |
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| attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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| attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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| baddeleyite | (noun) a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide | - |
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| bailey | (noun) the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
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| (noun) the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
| baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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| (noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
| barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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| (noun) a grain of barley | - |
| bey | (noun) the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt | - |
| beyond | (adverb) over and above | - |
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| (adverb) farther along in space or time or degree | - |
| (adverb) on the farther side from the observer | - |
| bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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| bitey | (adjective) Having a tendency to bite aggressively | - |
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| blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| bogey | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole | - |
| (verb) to shoot in one stroke over par | - |
| bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| boogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugaboo, bugbear |
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| buckeye | (noun) tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds | Synonyms: Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut |
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| (noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: conker, horse chestnut |
| buckleya | (noun) parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits | Synonyms: Buckleya distichophylla |
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| cagey | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagy, chary |
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| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagy, canny, clever |
| cattleya | (noun) any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known | - |
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| ceylonite | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: pleonaste |
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| chantey | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chanty, sea chantey, shanty |
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| chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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| (noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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| chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chokey | (noun) British slang (dated) for a prison | Synonyms: choky |
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| choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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| chutney | (noun) a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices | Synonyms: Indian relish |
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| clayey | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: argillaceous |
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| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: cloggy, heavy |
| clayeyness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
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| (noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
| cockeyed | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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| (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London | - |
| comfrey | (noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked | Synonyms: healing herb |
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| (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: cumfrey |
| coney | (noun) black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins | Synonyms: Epinephelus fulvus |
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| (noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: cony, rabbit |
| (noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: cony, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit |
| (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: cony, das, dassie, hyrax |
| convey | (verb) (of information) make known; pass on | - |
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| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, express |
| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, fetch, get |
| (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: bring, take |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, impart, transmit |
| (verb) transmit a title or property | - |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, transmit |
| conveyable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| conveyance | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying |
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| (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: transfer, transferral, transport, transportation |
| (noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: transport |
| (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: impartation, imparting |
| (noun) document effecting a property transfer | - |
| conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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| conveyancing | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveying |
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| conveyer | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt, transporter |
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| (noun) a person who conveys (carries or transmits) | Synonyms: conveyor |
| conveying | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing |
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| conveyor | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor belt, transporter |
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| (noun) a person who conveys (carries or transmits) | Synonyms: conveyer |
| covey | (noun) a small flock of grouse or partridge | - |
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| (noun) a small collection of people | - |
| cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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| cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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| curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
| curvey | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvy |
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| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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| (noun) a dead shot | - |
| dicey | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dodgy |
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| dickey | (adjective) (British informal) faulty | Synonyms: dicky |
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| (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront |
| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat, dicky |
| dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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| diddley | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| dinkey | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinky |
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| disobey | (verb) refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient | - |
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| dombeya | (noun) any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Dombeya grown for their rounded clusters of exquisite often sweet-scented flowers usually hanging beneath the leaves | - |
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| donkey | (noun) domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn | Synonyms: domestic ass, Equus asinus |
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| (noun) the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
| donkeywork | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: drudgery, grind, plodding |
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| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| dopey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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| doyley | (noun) a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | Synonyms: doily, doyly |
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| drey | (noun) the nest of a squirrel | - |
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| eyas | (noun) an unfledged or nestling hawk | - |
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| eye | (noun) a small hole or loop (as in a needle) | - |
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| (noun) the organ of sight | Synonyms: oculus, optic |
| (noun) good discernment (either visually or as if visually) | - |
| (noun) attention to what is seen | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, heart, middle |
| (verb) look at | Synonyms: eyeball |
| eyeball | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: orb |
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| (verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
| eyebath | (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyecup |
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| eyebrow | (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: brow, supercilium |
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| eyecup | (noun) (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina | Synonyms: optic cup |
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| (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyebath |
| eyed | (adjective) having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| eyedness | (noun) the property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim) | - |
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| eyedrop | (noun) a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists | Synonyms: eye-drop |
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| (noun) a drop from an eye dropper | Synonyms: eye-drop |
| eyeful | (noun) a full view; a good look | - |
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| (noun) a strikingly beautiful woman | - |
| eyeglass | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: monocle |
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| eyeglasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: glasses, specs, spectacles |
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| eyehole | (noun) a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar | Synonyms: eyelet |
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| (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: peephole, spyhole |
| eyelash | (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, lash |
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| eyeless | (adjective) lacking eyes or eyelike features | - |
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| (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: sightless, unseeing |
| eyelessness | (noun) blindness due to loss of the eyes | - |
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| eyelet | (noun) a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar | Synonyms: eyehole |
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| (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, grommet, grummet, loop |
| (noun) fabric decorated with small holes with finely stitched edges that form an ornamental pattern. | - |
| eyelid | (noun) either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | Synonyms: lid, palpebra |
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| eyelike | (adjective) suggesting an eye or eyes | - |
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| eyeliner | (noun) makeup applied to emphasize the shape of the eyes | - |
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| eyepatch | (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: patch |
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| eyepiece | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: ocular |
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| eyes | (noun) opinion or judgment | - |
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| eyeshade | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, peak, visor, vizor |
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| eyeshadow | (noun) makeup consisting of a cosmetic substance used to darken the eyes | - |
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| eyeshot | (noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: view |
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| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| eyesore | (noun) something very ugly and offensive | - |
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| eyespot | (noun) an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color | Synonyms: ocellus |
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