| alpine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of alps | - |
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| (adjective) living or growing above the timber line | - |
| atropine | (noun) a poisonous crystalline alkaloid extracted from the nightshade family; used as an antispasmodic and to dilate the eye pupil; also administered in large amounts as an antidote for organophosphate nerve agents or organophosphate insecticides | - |
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| benzodiazepine | (noun) any of several similar lipophilic amines used as tranquilizers or sedatives or hypnotics or muscle relaxants; chronic use can lead to dependency | - |
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| chopine | (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: platform |
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| cisalpine | (adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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| clozapine | (noun) an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; known to have few side effects | Synonyms: Clozaril |
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| loxapine | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Loxitane) used to treat schizophrenia | Synonyms: Loxitane |
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| lupine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of wolves | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers | Synonyms: lupin |
| nevirapine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Viramune) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Viramune |
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| nifedipine | (noun) calcium blocker (trade name Procardia); appears to increase the risk of recurrent heart attacks | Synonyms: Procardia |
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| opine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: animadvert, sound off, speak out, speak up |
| orpine | (noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | Synonyms: live-forever, livelong, orpin, Sedum telephium |
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| pilocarpine | (noun) cholinergic alkaloid used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma | - |
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| pine | (noun) a coniferous tree | Synonyms: pine tree, true pine |
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| (noun) straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus | - |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, yearn, yen |
| porcupine | (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: hedgehog |
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| rapine | (noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare | Synonyms: rape |
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| repine | (verb) express discontent | - |
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| reserpine | (noun) antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil) | Synonyms: Rau-Sed, Raudixin, Sandril, Serpasil |
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| resupine | (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: supine |
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| scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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| spine | (noun) a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin | - |
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| (noun) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved | Synonyms: backbone |
| (noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: back, backbone, rachis, spinal column, vertebral column |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn |
| (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: acantha, spur |
| subalpine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: alpestrine |
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| supine | (adjective) passive as a result of indolence or indifference | - |
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| (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: resupine |
| transalpine | (adjective) on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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| (noun) one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy | - |
| vulpine | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a fox | Synonyms: vulpecular |
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