blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
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blowtube | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe |
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(noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe |
bowtie | (noun) a man's tie that ties in a bow | Synonyms: bow-tie, bow tie |
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cowtown | (noun) a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America | Synonyms: cow town |
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cwt | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: hundredweight, long hundredweight |
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(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, hundredweight, quintal, short hundredweight |
growth | (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth |
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(noun) vegetation that has grown | - |
(noun) something grown or growing | - |
(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, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a progression from simpler to more complex forms | - |
(noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: increase, increment |
(noun) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | - |
hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
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ingrowth | (noun) something that grows inward | - |
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kowtow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kotow |
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(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, suck up, toady, truckle |
(verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, scrape |
newt | (noun) small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia | Synonyms: triton |
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newton | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes | Synonyms: N |
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outgrowth | (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, process |
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(noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, growth |
(noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, offshoot |
overgrowth | (noun) a profusion of growth on or over something else | - |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, gigantism |
pewter | (noun) any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead) | - |
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sawtooth | (noun) a serration on a saw blade | - |
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screwtop | (noun) the top of a container that must be screwed off and on | - |
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showtime | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, start, starting time |
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swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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undergrowth | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, underwood |
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yellowtail | (noun) superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | Synonyms: Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail snapper |
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(noun) game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin | Synonyms: Seriola dorsalis |
yellowthroat | (noun) small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat | - |
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