ampulla | (noun) a flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils | - |
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(noun) the dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear | - |
ampullar | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullary |
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ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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bulla | (noun) the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull | - |
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(noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, blister |
bullace | (noun) small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters | Synonyms: Prunus insititia |
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bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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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 |
garambulla | (noun) small berrylike fruit | - |
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(noun) arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit | Synonyms: garambulla cactus, Myrtillocactus geometrizans |
harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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hullabaloo | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval |
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lucullan | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, plush, plushy |
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lullaby | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: cradlesong |
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(noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, cradlesong |
medulla | (noun) the inner part of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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(noun) lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata) | Synonyms: bulb, medulla oblongata |
(noun) a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers | Synonyms: myelin, myeline |
medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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(adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
medullated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: myelinated |
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nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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sulla | (noun) perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop | Synonyms: French honeysuckle, Hedysarum coronarium |
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ullage | (noun) the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full | - |
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