| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| freeware | (noun) software that is provided without charge | - |
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| freeway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| freewheel | (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) | - |
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| (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freewheeler | (noun) someone acting freely or even irresponsibly | Synonyms: free agent, free spirit |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| freewill | (adjective) done of your own accord | - |
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| freewoman | (noun) a female person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freeze | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: halt |
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| (noun) fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level | - |
| (noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: frost |
| (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freezing |
| (verb) be cold | - |
| (verb) anesthetize by cold | - |
| (verb) suddenly behave coldly and formally | - |
| (verb) change to ice | - |
| (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: suspend |
| (verb) cause to freeze | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a solid when cold | Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out |
| (verb) stop moving or become immobilized | Synonyms: stop dead |
| (verb) be very cold, below the freezing point | - |
| freezer | (noun) electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time | Synonyms: deep-freeze, deep freezer, Deepfreeze |
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| freezing | (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freeze |
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| germfree | (adjective) free from germs or pathogenic organisms; sterile | - |
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| greed | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | - |
| greedily | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: avariciously, covetously |
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| greediness | (noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: rapaciousness, voraciousness |
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| (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: hoggishness, piggishness |
| greedy | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, esurient |
| (adjective) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume | - |
| greegree | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: gres-gris, grigri |
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| green | (adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: immature, unripe, unripened |
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| (adjective) concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party | - |
| (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, greenish, light-green |
| (adjective) looking pale and unhealthy | - |
| (adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: fleeceable, gullible |
| (noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C |
| (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: greenness, viridity |
| (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable |
| (noun) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course | Synonyms: putting green, putting surface |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, park |
| (verb) turn or become green | - |
| greenback | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, note |
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| greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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| greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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| greenfly | (noun) greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants | - |
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| greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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| greengrocer | (noun) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables | - |
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| greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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| (noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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| (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| greenly | (adverb) with green color | - |
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| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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| (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
| (noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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| greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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| greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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| greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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| greenside | (adjective) adjacent to a putting green | - |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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| greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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| greet | (verb) react to in a certain way | - |
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| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) send greetings to | - |
| (verb) be perceived by | - |
| greeter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: saluter, welcomer |
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| greeting | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: salutation |
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| hareem | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: harem, seraglio, serail |
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| honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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| (noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
| honoree | (noun) a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments | - |
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| inbreeding | (noun) the act of mating closely related individuals | - |
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| indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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| indiscreetly | (adverb) without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint | - |
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| indiscreetness | (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
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| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
| jamboree | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: blowout, gala, gala affair |
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| kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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| mentoree | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentee |
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| millidegree | (noun) a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree | - |
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| moreen | (noun) a heavy fabric of wool (or wool and cotton) used mostly in upholstery or for curtains | - |
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| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
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| newsreel | (noun) a short film and commentary about current events | - |
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| overgreedy | (adjective) excessively gluttonous | Synonyms: too-greedy |
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| pedigree | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
| (noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
| pedigreed | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| preeclampsia | (noun) abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated | Synonyms: pre-eclampsia |
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| preemie | (noun) an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation | Synonyms: premature baby, premature infant, premie, preterm baby, preterm infant |
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| preeminence | (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, note |
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| preeminent | (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: leading |
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| preeminently | (adverb) to a preeminent degree; with superiority or distinction above others; in a preeminent manner | Synonyms: pre-eminently |
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| preempt | (noun) a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding | Synonyms: pre-empt, preemptive bid |
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| (verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
| (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
| (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
| preemption | (noun) a prior appropriation of something | Synonyms: pre-emption |
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| (noun) the right to purchase something in advance of others | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| (noun) the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| (noun) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| preemptive | (adjective) designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence | Synonyms: pre-emptive |
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| preemptor | (noun) a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
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| (noun) someone who acquires land by preemption | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
| preen | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, primp |
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| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: congratulate |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: plume |
| preexist | (verb) exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time | - |
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| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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| preexisting | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexistent |
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| puree | (noun) food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender | - |
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| (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: strain |
| reecho | (verb) repeat back like an echo | - |
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| (verb) repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back | - |
| (verb) echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
| reechoing | (adjective) (of sounds) repeating by reflection | Synonyms: echoing |
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| reed | (noun) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed | Synonyms: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument |
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| (noun) a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it | Synonyms: vibrating reed |
| (noun) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites | - |
| reedbird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, ricebird |
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| (noun) small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa | Synonyms: Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, sedge bird, sedge warbler, sedge wren |
| reedlike | (adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedy |
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| reedmace | (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, Typha latifolia |
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| reedy | (adjective) having a tone of a reed instrument | Synonyms: wheezy |
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| (adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedlike |