abaca | (noun) Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc | Synonyms: Manila hemp, Musa textilis |
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(noun) a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines | Synonyms: Manila hemp, Manilla hemp |
albuca | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers; South Africa | - |
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alpaca | (noun) domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco | Synonyms: Lama pacos |
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(noun) a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool | - |
(noun) wool of the alpaca | - |
anasarca | (noun) generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue | - |
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angelica | (noun) aromatic stems or leaves or roots of Angelica Archangelica | - |
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(noun) candied stalks of the angelica plant | - |
(noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelique |
areca | (noun) any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts | - |
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arnica | (noun) an ointment used in treating bruises | - |
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(noun) any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica | - |
(noun) used especially in treating bruises | - |
asarabacca | (noun) thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe | Synonyms: Asarum europaeum |
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bacca | (noun) an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape, tomato, cranberry | Synonyms: simple fruit |
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basilica | (noun) a Roman building used for public administration | Synonyms: Roman basilica |
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(noun) an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges | - |
bibliotheca | (noun) a collection of books | - |
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carioca | (noun) a lively ballroom dance that resembles the samba | - |
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(noun) music composed for dancing the carioca | - |
chachalaca | (noun) slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds | - |
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cloaca | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: sewer, sewerage |
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(noun) (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not other mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open | - |
coca | (noun) dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect | - |
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(noun) a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine | Synonyms: coca plant, Erythroxylon coca |
erica | (noun) any plant of the genus Erica | Synonyms: true heath |
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erotica | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: porn, porno, pornography, smut |
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esoterica | (noun) secrets known only to an initiated minority | - |
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felucca | (noun) a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean | - |
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harmonica | (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harp, mouth harp, mouth organ |
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hepatica | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | Synonyms: liverleaf |
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(noun) a common liverwort | Synonyms: Marchantia polymorpha |
japonica | (noun) deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms | Synonyms: Chaenomeles japonica, maule's quince |
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(noun) greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: Camellia japonica |
linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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maiolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: majolica |
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majolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: maiolica |
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malacca | (noun) a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm | Synonyms: malacca cane |
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(noun) stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles | - |
mandioca | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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manioca | (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioc |
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maraca | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs | - |
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marasca | (noun) Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur | Synonyms: marasca cherry, maraschino cherry, Prunus cerasus marasca |
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(noun) small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made | - |
mecca | (noun) a place that attracts many visitors | - |
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merica | (noun) A pejorative term for the United States | - |
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mica | (noun) any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity | Synonyms: isinglass |
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noctiluca | (noun) large bioluminescent marine protozoan | Synonyms: Noctiluca miliaris |
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oca | (noun) South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers | Synonyms: oka, Oxalis crenata, Oxalis tuberosa |
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orca | (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: grampus, killer, killer whale, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
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paca | (noun) large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food | Synonyms: Cuniculus paca |
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panamica | (noun) low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers | Synonyms: friendship plant, panamiga, Pilea involucrata |
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pataca | (noun) the basic unit of money in Macao | - |
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pica | (noun) a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing | Synonyms: em, pica em |
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(noun) an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently | - |
plica | (noun) a folded part (as in skin or muscle) | Synonyms: fold |
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portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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replica | (noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied | Synonyms: replication, reproduction |
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sambuca | (noun) an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice | - |
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sciatica | (noun) neuralgia along the sciatic nerve | - |
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silica | (noun) a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite | Synonyms: silicon dioxide, silicon oxide |
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tapioca | (noun) granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings | - |
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theca | (noun) outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects | - |
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(noun) a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule | Synonyms: sac |
tunica | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: adventitia, tunic |
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veronica | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: speedwell |
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verruca | (noun) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | Synonyms: wart |
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vesica | (noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: bladder |
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yacca | (noun) West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves | Synonyms: Podocarpus coriaceus, yacca podocarp |
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yucca | (noun) any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America | - |
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