| alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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| (noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: counterclockwise |
| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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| bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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| (noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
| bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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| barbwire | (noun) strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage | Synonyms: barbed wire |
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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| (noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| betwixt | (adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: between |
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| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| bewilderedly | (adverb) in a bewildered manner | - |
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| bewilderingly | (adverb) in a bewildering and confusing manner | Synonyms: confusingly |
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| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| bewitched | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: ensorcelled |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| bewitchingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: captivatingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly |
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| bewitchment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: enchantment |
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| bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| breadthwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, broadwise |
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| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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| broadwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, breadthwise |
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| candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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| (noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chewing | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, manduction, mastication |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction that the hands of a clock move | - |
| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| (adverb) by way of, or along the coast | - |
| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| contrariwise | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrarily, on the contrary, to the contrary |
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| (adverb) with the order reversed | Synonyms: the other way around, vice versa |
| (adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrarily, perversely |
| cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: anticlockwise |
| countrywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: nationwide |
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| countywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a county | - |
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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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| crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
| (adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crossways |
| (adverb) not in the intended manner | - |
| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| dewiness | (noun) The state or property of being covered by dew, or bearing droplets of water. | - |
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| dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| downwind | (adjective) towards the side away from the wind | Synonyms: lee |
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| (adverb) with the wind; in the direction the wind is blowing | - |
| (adverb) toward the wind | Synonyms: windward |
| drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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| (noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
| (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
| (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| (noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
| (noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
| earwig | (noun) any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen | - |
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| edgewise | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgeways |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgeways |
| elbowing | (noun) jostling with the elbows | - |
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| endwise | (adverb) with the end forward or toward the observer | Synonyms: end on, endways |
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| (adverb) in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise | Synonyms: endways |
| (adverb) on end or upright | Synonyms: endways |
| entwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: knit |
| erwinia | (noun) rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants | - |
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| eyewitness | (noun) a spectator who can describe what happened | - |
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| (verb) be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes | - |
| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| fishwife | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishmonger |
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| flowing | (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, sleek, streamlined |
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| (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flow |
| following | (adjective) going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the desired direction | - |
| (adjective) about to be mentioned or specified | Synonyms: undermentioned |
| (adjective) immediately following in time or order | Synonyms: next |
| (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
| (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
| foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
| forewing | (noun) either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | Synonyms: fore-wing, fore wing |
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| forthwith | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| freewill | (adjective) done of your own accord | - |
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| gaywings | (noun) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals | Synonyms: bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia |
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| glowing | (adjective) highly enthusiastic | - |
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| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, radiance |
| glowingly | (adverb) in an enthusiastically glowing manner | - |
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| godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| growing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for growth | - |
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| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
| harrowing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| haywire | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, awry, wrong |
| (noun) wire for tying up bales of hay | - |
| headwind | (noun) wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| herewith | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: hereby |
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| hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
| housewife | (noun) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income | Synonyms: homemaker, lady of the house, woman of the house |
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| housewifely | (adjective) related or suited to a housewife | - |
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| housewifery | (noun) the work of a housewife | - |
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| howitzer | (noun) a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | Synonyms: mortar, trench mortar |
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| inflowing | (adjective) flowing inward | Synonyms: influent |
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| ingrowing | (adjective) growing abnormally into the flesh | Synonyms: ingrown |
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| intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
| (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
| kiwi | (noun) nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes | Synonyms: apteryx |
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| (noun) fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh | Synonyms: Chinese gooseberry, kiwi fruit |
| (noun) climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat | Synonyms: Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa, Chinese gooseberry, kiwi vine |
| knowing | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) evidencing the possession of inside information | Synonyms: wise, wise to |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, intentional |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowledgeable |
| (noun) a clear and certain mental apprehension | - |
| knowingly | (adverb) with full knowledge and deliberation | Synonyms: wittingly |
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| knowingness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, consciousness |
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| (noun) shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge | - |
| lacewing | (noun) any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids | Synonyms: lacewing fly |
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