| aculeate | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeated |
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| aculeated | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeate |
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| aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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| binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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| binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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| bleat | (noun) the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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| (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, blate |
| (verb) talk whiningly | - |
| cleat | (noun) a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached | - |
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| (noun) a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured | - |
| (noun) a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping | - |
| (verb) secure on a cleat | - |
| (verb) provide with cleats | - |
| cleats | (noun) shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles | - |
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| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| enucleation | (noun) surgical removal of something without cutting into it | - |
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| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leathered | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leatherlike, leathery |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherlike | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leathery |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| maleate | (noun) a salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation | - |
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| mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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| multinucleate | (adjective) having two or more nuclei | - |
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| nucleate | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleated |
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| (verb) form into a nucleus | - |
| nucleated | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleate |
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| pleat | (noun) any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape | Synonyms: plait |
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| (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: ruffle |
| (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: plicate |
| pleating | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: plication |
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| trinucleate | (adjective) having three nuclei | Synonyms: trinuclear, trinucleated |
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| trinucleated | (adjective) having three nuclei | Synonyms: trinuclear, trinucleate |
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| uninucleate | (adjective) having one nucleus | - |
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