circularly | (adverb) in a circular manner | - |
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circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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(adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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claret | (noun) a dark purplish-red color | - |
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(noun) dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine | Synonyms: red Bordeaux |
(verb) drink claret | - |
clarification | (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clearing |
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(noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: elucidation, illumination |
clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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clarinet | (noun) a single-reed instrument with a straight tube | - |
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clarinetist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinettist |
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clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
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clarion | (adjective) loud and clear | - |
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(noun) a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone | - |
(verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
(verb) blow the clarion | - |
clarity | (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clearness, uncloudedness |
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(noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
claro | (noun) a cigar made with light-colored tobacco | - |
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clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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collar | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, pinch, taking into custody |
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(noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: leash |
(noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: neckband |
(noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, dog collar, neckband |
(noun) a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it | - |
(noun) the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: shoe collar |
(noun) a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part | - |
(noun) anything worn or placed about the neck | - |
(noun) (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal | - |
(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) furnish with a collar | - |
(verb) seize by the neck or collar | - |
collarbone | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: clavicle |
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collard | (noun) variety of kale having smooth leaves | - |
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collards | (noun) kale that has smooth leaves | Synonyms: collard greens |
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collarless | (adjective) without a collar | - |
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condylar | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a condyle | - |
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constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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consular | (adjective) having to do with a consul or his office or duties | - |
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copular | (adjective) of or relating to a copula | - |
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corollary | (noun) (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition | - |
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(noun) a practical consequence that follows naturally | - |
corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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crotalaria | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: rattlebox |
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cupular | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupulate |
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curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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declarable | (adjective) that must be declared | - |
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declaration | (noun) a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) | - |
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(noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: resolution, resolve |
(noun) (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction | - |
(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, proclamation |
(noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: contract |
(noun) a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties | - |
declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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(adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
(noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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declare | (verb) state emphatically and authoritatively | - |
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(verb) state firmly | - |
(verb) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official | - |
(verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, hold |
(verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: announce |
(verb) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against | - |
(verb) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand | - |
(verb) authorize payments of | - |
declared | (adjective) made known or openly avowed | - |
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(adjective) declared as fact; explicitly stated | Synonyms: stated |
declarer | (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: contractor |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, avower |
depolarisation | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarization |
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depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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depolarization | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarisation |
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depolarize | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarise |
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dipolar | (adjective) having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance | - |
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dissimilar | (adjective) not similar | - |
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(adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: unalike |
dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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dollar | (noun) a symbol of commercialism or greed | Synonyms: dollar mark, dollar sign |
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(noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: buck, clam, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
(noun) a United States coin worth one dollar | - |
(noun) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents | - |
dollarfish | (noun) small food fish of Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Poronotus triacanthus |
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(noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
dullard | (noun) a person who evokes boredom | Synonyms: bore |
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(noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person |
encephalartos | (noun) any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves | - |
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enlarge | (verb) become larger or bigger | - |
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(verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, magnify |
(verb) make larger | - |
(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
enlarged | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells | Synonyms: hypertrophied |
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(adjective) as of a photograph; made larger | Synonyms: blown-up |
(adjective) larger than normal | - |
(adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: exaggerated, magnified |
enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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(noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
(noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
(noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
enlarger | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph | - |
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epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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escolar | (noun) large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes | Synonyms: Lepidocybium flavobrunneum |
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exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
(adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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exhilarated | (adjective) made joyful | Synonyms: gladdened |
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exhilarating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: elating |
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(adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: stimulating |
exhilaration | (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: excitement |
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extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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(adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
(adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
filar | (adjective) related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) | - |
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filaree | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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filaria | (noun) slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects | - |
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(noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
filarial | (adjective) related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria | - |
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filariasis | (noun) a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels | - |
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filariid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae | - |
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fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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flare | (noun) (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield | - |
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(noun) a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines | Synonyms: flare pass |
(noun) a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification | - |
(noun) a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate | Synonyms: flash |
(noun) a sudden outburst of emotion | - |
(noun) a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference | Synonyms: solar flare |
(noun) an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection) | - |
(noun) a sudden burst of flame | - |
(noun) a shape that spreads outward | Synonyms: flair |
(noun) reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation | - |
(noun) a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms | - |
(verb) become flared and widen, usually at one end | Synonyms: flare out |
(verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare up, irrupt |
(verb) burn brightly | Synonyms: blaze up, burn up, flame up |
(verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flame |
flaring | (adjective) streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air | Synonyms: aflare |
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follicular | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a follicle | - |
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formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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(noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
foulard | (noun) a light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design) | - |
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fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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(noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
funicular | (adjective) relating to or operated by a cable | - |
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(noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
gaillardia | (noun) any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy | - |
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glabellar | (adjective) of or relating to the glabella | - |
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glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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glare | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glower |
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(noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, brilliance |
(noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: limelight, public eye, spotlight |
(verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glower |
(verb) shine intensely | - |
(verb) be sharply reflected | - |
glareole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: pratincole |
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glaring | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glary |
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(adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, gross, rank |
glaringly | (adverb) in a glaring manner | - |
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glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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globular | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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gracilariid | (noun) small dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves | Synonyms: gracilariid moth |
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granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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hexangular | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexagonal |
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hilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located near a hilum | - |
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hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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hilariously | (adverb) in a hilarious manner | Synonyms: uproariously |
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hilarity | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, mirth, mirthfulness |
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hypercellularity | (noun) the state of having abnormally many cells | - |
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