activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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(noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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(noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
(noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
(noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
(verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
(verb) respond to a signal | - |
(verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
(verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
(verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
(verb) match or correspond | - |
(verb) be liable or accountable | - |
(verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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(adjective) capable of being answered | - |
(adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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avowed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: professed |
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avowedly | (adverb) by open declaration | Synonyms: professedly |
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(adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: admittedly, confessedly, true |
avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
awe | (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: fear, reverence, veneration |
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(noun) an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration | - |
(verb) inspire awe in | - |
aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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awed | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awestricken, awestruck |
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(adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awful |
aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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(adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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(adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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bedwetter | (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, wetter |
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beetleweed | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower |
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beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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(noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
benweed | (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: ragweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
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bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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between | (adverb) in between | Synonyms: 'tween |
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(adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: betwixt |
betweenbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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bindweed | (noun) any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit | - |
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bioweapon | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: bioarm, biological weapon |
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bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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(adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
(noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
(noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
bitterweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, ragweed |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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(adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
(noun) a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) | - |
(adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
(adverb) twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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(noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
(noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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bowed | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow | - |
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(adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate |
(adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowleg, bowlegged |
(adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowing |
bowel | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: gut, intestine |
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bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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bowels | (noun) the center of the Earth | - |
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bower | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, pergola |
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(verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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brewer | (noun) the owner or manager of a brewery | - |
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(noun) someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water | Synonyms: beer maker |
brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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(noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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(noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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(noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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cancerweed | (noun) sage of eastern United States | Synonyms: cancer weed, Salvia lyrata |
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candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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candyweed | (noun) bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers | Synonyms: orange milkwort, Polygala lutea, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort |
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cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
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capeweed | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata |
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carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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cauliflower | (noun) compact head of white undeveloped flowers | - |
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(noun) a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea botrytis |
chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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chewer | (noun) someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco) | - |
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chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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(noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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clawed | (adjective) (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons | Synonyms: taloned |
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(adjective) having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a combining form | - |
clearweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: dead nettle, Pilea pumilla, richweed |
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cobweb | (noun) a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web | - |
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(noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: gossamer |
(noun) a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider | - |
cobwebby | (adjective) covered with cobwebs | - |
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(adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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(noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
(noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
(noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
(noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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(noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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(noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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(verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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(verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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crewelwork | (noun) embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn | - |
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crewet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: cruet |
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cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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(noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
(noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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(noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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(verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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disembowelment | (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: evisceration |
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dishtowel | (noun) a towel for drying dishes | Synonyms: dish towel, tea towel |
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