antipyresis | (noun) medication with antipyretics to treat a fever | - |
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antipyretic | (adjective) preventing or alleviating fever | - |
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(noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: febrifuge |
byre | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: cow barn, cowbarn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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empyreal | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyrean |
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(adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyrean, sublime |
empyrean | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyreal |
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(adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, sublime |
(noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
gyre | (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
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hyperpyrexia | (noun) extremely high fever (especially in children) | - |
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lyre | (noun) a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment | - |
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lyrebird | (noun) Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape | - |
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lyreflower | (noun) garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis, lyre-flower |
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polystyrene | (noun) a polymer of styrene; a rigid transparent thermoplastic | - |
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pyre | (noun) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite | Synonyms: funeral pyre |
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pyrectic | (adjective) having or causing fever | - |
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(noun) any substance that can cause a rise in body temperature | Synonyms: pyrogen |
pyrene | (noun) the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it | - |
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(noun) a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar | - |
pyrethrum | (noun) spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum coccineum, painted daisy, Tanacetum coccineum |
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(noun) white-flowered pyrethrum of Balkan area whose pinnate leaves are white and silky-hairy below; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium, Dalmatia pyrethrum, Dalmatian pyrethrum, Tanacetum cinerariifolium |
(noun) made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants | - |
pyretic | (adjective) causing fever | - |
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pyrexia | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, feverishness |
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styrene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: cinnamene, phenylethylene, vinylbenzene |
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thyreophoran | (noun) armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs | Synonyms: suborder Thyreophora, Thyreophora |
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tyre | (noun) hoop that covers a wheel | Synonyms: tire |
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