| radio | (adjective) indicating radiation or radioactivity | - |
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| (noun) a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: wireless |
| (noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner, wireless |
| (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radiocommunication, wireless |
| (verb) transmit messages via radio waves | - |
| radiophoto | (noun) a photograph transmitted by radio waves | Synonyms: radiophotograph |
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| rallentando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rit., ritardando, ritenuto |
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| (adverb) slowing down | - |
| ratio | (noun) the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | Synonyms: proportion |
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| (noun) the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) | - |
| razbliuto | (noun) the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do | - |
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| rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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| rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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| recco | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, reccy |
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| recto | (noun) right-hand page | - |
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| redo | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, remodel |
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| (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, refashion, remake |
| reductio | (noun) (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction | Synonyms: reductio ad absurdum |
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| reecho | (verb) repeat back like an echo | - |
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| (verb) repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back | - |
| (verb) echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
| relievo | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: embossment, relief, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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| retro | (adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retroactive |
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| (noun) a fashion reminiscent of the past | - |
| rhino | (noun) massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout | Synonyms: rhinoceros |
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| rho | (noun) the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| rilievo | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: embossment, relief, relievo, sculptural relief |
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| risotto | (noun) rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese | Synonyms: Italian rice |
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| ritardando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritenuto |
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| ritenuto | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritardando |
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| robalo | (noun) a kind of percoid fish | - |
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| rococo | (adjective) having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation | - |
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| (noun) fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century | - |
| rodeo | (noun) an exhibition of cowboy skills | - |
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| (noun) an enclosure for cattle that have been rounded up | - |
| rondo | (noun) a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | Synonyms: rondeau |
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| roneo | (verb) make copies on a Roneograph | - |
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| rubato | (noun) a flexible tempo; not strictly on the beat | - |
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| sago | (noun) powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener | - |
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| saguaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, sahuaro |
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| sahuaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, saguaro |
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| salvo | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, volley |
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| (noun) a sudden outburst of cheers | - |
| (noun) an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs | - |
| sapsago | (noun) a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover | - |
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| sargasso | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| scampo | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: langoustine, Norwegian lobster |
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| scenario | (noun) an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) | - |
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| (noun) a postulated sequence of possible events | - |
| (noun) a setting for a work of art or literature | - |
| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schmo | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmuck, shmo, shmuck |
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| secondo | (noun) the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet) | - |
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| segno | (noun) (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated | - |
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| semipro | (noun) an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis | Synonyms: semiprofessional |
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| seraglio | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, harem, serail |
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| servo | (adjective) of or involving servomechanisms | Synonyms: servomechanical |
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| (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servomechanism, servosystem |
| sforzando | (noun) (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack | - |
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| (noun) an accented chord | - |
| sgraffito | (noun) a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground | - |
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| shako | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, busby |
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| shampoo | (noun) the act of washing your hair with shampoo | - |
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| (noun) cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair | - |
| (verb) use shampoo on (hair) | - |
| shmo | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, schmuck, shmuck |
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| shoo | (verb) drive away by crying `shoo!' | Synonyms: shoo away, shoo off |
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| silo | (noun) a cylindrical tower used for storing silage | - |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired | - |
| sirocco | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sandstorm |
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| sissoo | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissu |
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| smilo | (noun) perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America | Synonyms: Oryzopsis miliacea, smilo grass |
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| so | (noun) the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: soh, sol |
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| (adverb) in truth (often tends to intensify) | Synonyms: indeed |
| (adverb) to a very great extent or degree | - |
| (adverb) (usually followed by `that') to an extent or degree as expressed | - |
| (adverb) in the way indicated | Synonyms: thus, thusly |
| (adverb) in such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied | - |
| (adverb) in a manner that facilitates | - |
| (adverb) to a certain unspecified extent or degree | - |
| (adverb) in the same way; also | - |
| (adverb) subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors) | Synonyms: and so, then |
| (adverb) (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | Synonyms: hence, thence, therefore, thus |
| solfeggio | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfege |
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| (noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfege, solmization |
| solferino | (noun) a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino | Synonyms: purplish pink |
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| solo | (adjective) composed or performed by a single voice or instrument | - |
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| (noun) a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied | - |
| (noun) any activity that is performed alone without assistance | - |
| (noun) a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment) | - |
| (adverb) without anybody else or anything else | Synonyms: alone, unaccompanied |
| (verb) perform a piece written for a single instrument | - |
| (verb) fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers | - |
| sombrero | (noun) a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico | - |
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| sopranino | (adjective) higher in range than soprano | - |
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| soprano | (adjective) having or denoting a high range | Synonyms: treble |
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| (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: treble |
| (noun) the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty | - |
| (noun) a female singer with the highest vocal range of all the voice type | - |
| sordino | (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sourdine |
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| sorgho | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sorgo | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgho, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| spiccato | (noun) bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings | Synonyms: spiccato bowing |
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| staccato | (adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | Synonyms: disconnected |
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| (adverb) separating the notes; in music | - |
| stereo | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereophonic, two-channel |
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| (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo system, stereophonic system, stereophony |
| (noun) two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together | Synonyms: stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture |
| stiletto | (noun) a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
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| strapado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strappado |
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| strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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| stucco | (noun) a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces | - |
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| (verb) coat with stucco | - |
| (verb) decorate with stucco work | - |
| studio | (noun) workplace for the teaching or practice of an art | - |
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| (noun) an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen | Synonyms: studio apartment |
| (noun) workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded | - |
| sumo | (noun) a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground | - |
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| supercargo | (noun) an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase | - |
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| superego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience | - |
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| supremo | (noun) the most important person in an organization | - |
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| switcheroo | (noun) a sudden unexpected switch | - |
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| synchro | (noun) a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized | Synonyms: selsyn |
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| tabasco | (noun) very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small | Synonyms: red pepper |
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| taboo | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, tabu, verboten |
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| (adjective) forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands | Synonyms: tabu |
| (noun) an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion | Synonyms: tabu |
| (noun) a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature | Synonyms: tabu |
| (verb) declare as sacred and forbidden | - |
| taco | (noun) a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling | - |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, wetback |
| taekwondo | (noun) a Korean martial art similar to karate | Synonyms: tae kwon do |
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| tamarao | (noun) small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines | Synonyms: Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarau |
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| tamarillo | (noun) South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato | Synonyms: tree tomato |
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| tamarindo | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarind |
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| (noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind, tamarind tree, Tamarindus indica |
| tangelo | (noun) large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin | Synonyms: ugli, ugli fruit |
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| (noun) hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida | Synonyms: Citrus tangelo, tangelo tree, ugli fruit |
| tango | (noun) a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin | - |
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| (noun) music written in duple time for dancing the tango | - |
| (verb) dance a tango | - |
| taro | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, edda, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, dasheen, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, eddo |
| tattoo | (noun) the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining | - |
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| (noun) a design on the skin made by tattooing | - |
| (noun) a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters | - |
| (verb) stain (skin) with indelible color | - |
| techno | (noun) a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals | - |
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| telco | (noun) a public utility that provides telephone service | Synonyms: phone company, phone service, telephone company, telephone service |
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| telephoto | (noun) a photograph made with a telephoto lens | Synonyms: telephotograph |
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| tempo | (noun) the rate of some repeating event | Synonyms: pace |
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| (noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played | Synonyms: pacing |
| tenno | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: mikado |
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| teredo | (noun) typical shipworm | - |
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| terzetto | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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| testudo | (noun) a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification | - |
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| thereto | (adverb) to that | Synonyms: to it, to that |
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| ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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| tiro | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, novice, tyro |
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| tobacco | (noun) leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion | Synonyms: baccy |
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| (noun) aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs | Synonyms: tobacco plant |
| tomatillo | (noun) small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk | Synonyms: husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato |
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| (noun) annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa |
| (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry |
| tomato | (noun) mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable | - |
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| (noun) native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: love apple, Lycopersicon esculentum, tomato plant |