| farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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| (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
| fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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| fenland | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, marsh, marshland |
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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 | - |
| flan | (noun) open pastry filled with fruit or custard | - |
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| flange | (noun) a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object | Synonyms: rim |
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| flank | (noun) the side between ribs and hipbone | - |
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| (noun) a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg | - |
| (noun) the side of military or naval formation | Synonyms: wing |
| (noun) a subfigure consisting of a side of something | - |
| (verb) be located at the sides of something or somebody | - |
| flanker | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation | - |
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| (noun) a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver | Synonyms: flanker back |
| flannel | (noun) a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing | - |
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| (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, washcloth, washrag |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: gabardine, tweed, white |
| flannelbush | (noun) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers | Synonyms: California beauty, flannel bush |
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| flannelette | (noun) a cotton fabric imitating flannel | - |
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| floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
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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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| galangal | (noun) southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots | Synonyms: Alpinia galanga |
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| (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galingale |
| galantine | (noun) boned poultry stuffed then cooked and covered with aspic; served cold | - |
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| gallant | (adjective) unflinching in battle or action | - |
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| (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, knightly |
| (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: lofty, majestic, proud |
| (adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: dashing |
| (noun) a man who attends or escorts a woman | Synonyms: squire |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, sheik, swell |
| gallantly | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: chivalrously |
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| gallantry | (noun) polite attentiveness to women | - |
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| (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: heroism, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
| (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: chivalry, politesse |
| 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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| gangland | (noun) underworld organizations | Synonyms: gangdom, organized crime |
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| gangplank | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangway |
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| garland | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath |
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| (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany |
| (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
| glance | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glimpse |
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| (verb) hit at an angle | - |
| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glint, peek |
| gland | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: secreter, secretor, secretory organ |
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| glanders | (noun) a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans | - |
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| glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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| glans | (noun) a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris | - |
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| grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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| gyroplane | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, autogyro |
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| headland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, promontory |
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| heartland | (noun) the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture | - |
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| heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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| heulandite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium | - |
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| highland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: upland |
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| (noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: upland |
| hinterland | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, boondocks |
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| hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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| holocephalan | (noun) fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail | Synonyms: holocephalian |
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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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| houseplant | (noun) any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes | - |
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| hydroplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: seaplane |
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| (noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
| (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
| imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
| imbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: unbalanced |
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| implant | (noun) a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue | - |
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| (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
| (verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
| implantation | (noun) the act of planting or setting in the ground | - |
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| (noun) a surgical procedure that places something in the human body | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals | Synonyms: nidation |
| implanted | (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, planted |
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| inhalant | (adjective) inhaling or serving for inhalation | - |
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| (noun) a medication to be taken by inhaling it | Synonyms: inhalation |
| (noun) something that is inhaled | - |
| inland | (adjective) situated away from an area's coast or border | - |
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| (adverb) towards or into the interior of a region | - |
| inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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| insulant | (noun) insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity | Synonyms: insulation |
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| interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| island | (noun) a zone or area resembling an island | - |
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| (noun) a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water | - |
| islander | (noun) an inhabitant of an island | Synonyms: island-dweller |
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| jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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| jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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| jubilant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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| (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, joyful |
| jubilantly | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, merrily, mirthfully |
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| kalansuwa | (noun) a cap that is wrapped around by a turban and worn by Muslim religious elders | - |
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| kalantas | (noun) Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood | Synonyms: Cedrela calantas, Philippine cedar, Philippine mahogany, Toona calantas |
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| korlan | (noun) the fruit from the korlan tree. | - |
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| lanai | (noun) a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room | - |
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| lanate | (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: woolly |
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| lance | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: shaft, spear |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear |
| (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lancet |
| (verb) open by piercing with a lancet | - |
| (verb) pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight | - |
| (verb) move quickly, as if by cutting one's way | - |
| lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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| lancelike | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lanceolate |
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| lanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lancelike |
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| lancer | (noun) (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance | - |
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| lancers | (noun) a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples | - |
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| lancet | (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lance |
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| (noun) an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance | Synonyms: lancet arch |
| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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| (noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
| lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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| land | (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: farming |
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| (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, nation, res publica, state |
| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: country, nation |
| (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: demesne, domain |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: country, state |
| (noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma |
| (noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: ground, soil |
| (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, demesne, estate, landed estate |
| (noun) the land on which real estate is located | - |
| (noun) a domain in which something is dominant | Synonyms: kingdom, realm |
| (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
| (verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
| (verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
| (verb) bring ashore | - |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
| (verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
| landau | (noun) a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately | - |
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| landed | (adjective) owning or consisting of land or real estate | - |
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| lander | (noun) a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet | - |
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| landfall | (noun) the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
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| (noun) the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) | - |
| landfill | (noun) a low area that has been filled in | - |
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| landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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| landholder | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landowner, property owner |
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| landholding | (noun) a holding in the form of land | - |
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| (noun) ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land | - |
| landing | (noun) the act of coming to land after a voyage | - |
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| (noun) the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface) | - |
| (noun) structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods | Synonyms: landing place |
| (noun) an intermediate platform in a staircase | - |
| landlady | (noun) a landlord who is a woman | - |
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| landler | (noun) a moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping | - |
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| (noun) music in triple time for dancing the landler | - |
| landless | (adjective) owning no land | - |
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| landline | (noun) a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits | Synonyms: land line |
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| landlocked | (adjective) surrounded entirely or almost entirely by land | - |
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| landlord | (noun) a landowner who leases to others | - |
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| landlubber | (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landsman, lubber |
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| (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landman, landsman |
| landlubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: lubberly |
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| landman | (noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
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| landmark | (noun) an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken | - |
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| (noun) a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | - |
| (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: turning point, watershed |
| (noun) the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape | - |
| landmass | (noun) a large continuous extent of land | Synonyms: land mass |
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| landowner | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landholder, property owner |
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| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| landscape | (noun) a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery | Synonyms: landscape painting |
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| (noun) painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery | - |
| (noun) an extensive mental viewpoint | - |
| (noun) an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view | - |
| (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
| (verb) embellish with plants | - |
| landscaped | (adjective) (of land) improved by gardening or landscape architecture | - |
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