| basic | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting a base or basis | - |
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| (adjective) of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base | - |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: introductory |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant | Synonyms: staple |
| basically | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: essentially, fundamentally |
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| basics | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, bedrock, fundamental principle, fundamentals |
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| (noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: rudiments |
| basidial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by basidia | - |
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| basidiocarp | (noun) the fruiting body of a basidiomycete which bears its spores on special cells | - |
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| basidiolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete | - |
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| basidiomycete | (noun) any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota | Synonyms: basidiomycetous fungi |
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| basidiomycetous | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes | - |
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| basidiospore | (noun) a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| basidium | (noun) a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes | - |
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| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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| basil | (noun) leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried | Synonyms: sweet basil |
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| (noun) any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum | - |
| basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basileus | (noun) a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire | - |
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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 | - |
| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| basilisk | (noun) small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | - |
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| (noun) ancient brass cannon | - |
| (noun) (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance | - |
| basin | (noun) a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids | - |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: lavatory, washbasin, washbowl, washstand |
| (noun) the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet | Synonyms: catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed |
| (noun) a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it | - |
| (noun) the quantity that a basin will hold | Synonyms: basinful |
| basinal | (adjective) of or relating to a basin | - |
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| basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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| basinet | (noun) a medieval steel helmet | - |
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| basinful | (noun) the quantity that a basin will hold | Synonyms: basin |
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| basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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| basis | (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
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| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: footing, ground |
| (noun) the most important or necessary part of something | Synonyms: base |
| basiscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the base | - |
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| bask | (verb) be exposed | - |
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| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: enjoy, relish, savor, savour |
| basket | (noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop | Synonyms: field goal |
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| (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: handbasket |
| (noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basketball hoop, hoop |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basketful |
| basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
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| (noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
| basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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| basketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basket |
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| basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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| basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| basophil | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophile |
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| basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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| basophilia | (noun) the tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes | - |
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| basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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| bass | (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: deep |
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| (noun) the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments | - |
| (noun) the lowest part of the musical range | - |
| (noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass voice, basso |
| (noun) the lowest part in polyphonic music | Synonyms: bass part |
| (noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: basso |
| (noun) nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes | - |
| (noun) any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) | Synonyms: freshwater bass |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae | Synonyms: sea bass |
| bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| basset | (noun) smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears | Synonyms: basset hound |
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| (verb) appear at the surface | Synonyms: crop out |
| bassine | (noun) coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms | - |
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| bassinet | (noun) a basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed | - |
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| (noun) a perambulator that resembles a bassinet | - |
| bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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| basso | (noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass, bass voice |
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| (noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: bass |
| bassoon | (noun) a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family | - |
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| bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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| basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
| bast | (noun) (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes | Synonyms: phloem |
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| (noun) strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants | Synonyms: bast fiber |
| bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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| (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: mongrel |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
| bastardisation | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardization |
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| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| bastardization | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardisation |
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| (noun) declaring or rendering bastard | - |
| bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
| bastardy | (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, illegitimacy |
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| baste | (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: basting, basting stitch, tacking |
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| (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
| baster | (noun) a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat | - |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: tacker |
| (noun) a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy | - |
| bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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| bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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| (noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
| (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
| basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
| bastion | (noun) projecting part of a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: citadel |
| (noun) a group that defends a principle | - |
| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bastnaesite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnasite |
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| bastnasite | (noun) a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements | Synonyms: bastnaesite |
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| basuco | (noun) low-grade cocaine mixed with coca paste and cannabis | - |
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| bat | (noun) (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit | Synonyms: at-bat |
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| (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: chiropteran |
| (noun) a club used for hitting a ball in various games | - |
| (noun) the club used in playing cricket | Synonyms: cricket bat |
| (noun) a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash | Synonyms: squash racket, squash racquet |
| (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: flutter |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
| (verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat | - |
| (verb) use a bat | - |
| (verb) have a turn at bat | - |
| batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
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| (noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch | - |
| bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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| (verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
| (verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
| bated | (adjective) diminished or moderated | - |
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| batfish | (noun) bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins | - |
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| batfowl | (verb) catch birds by temporarily blinding them | - |
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| bath | (noun) a soaking and washing in a bathtub | - |
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| (noun) a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it) | - |
| (noun) an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons | - |
| bathe | (noun) the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation | - |
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| (verb) cleanse the entire body | - |
| (verb) suffuse or envelope with something | - |
| (verb) swim for pleasure or recreation | - |
| bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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| (noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
| bathetic | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| bathhouse | (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bagnio |
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| (noun) a building containing dressing rooms for bathers | Synonyms: bathing machine |
| bathing | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | - |
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| (noun) the act of washing yourself (or another person) | Synonyms: washup |
| batholite | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholith | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholithic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholitic |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| bathometer | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathymeter |
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| bathos | (noun) triteness or triviality of style | - |
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| (noun) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | Synonyms: anticlimax |
| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: mawkishness |
| bathrobe | (noun) a loose-fitting robe of towelling; worn after a bath or swim | - |
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| bathroom | (noun) a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet | - |
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| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: can, john, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
| bathtub | (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, tub |
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| bathyal | (adjective) relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope) | - |
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| bathymeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathometer |
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| bathymetric | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetrical |
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| bathymetrical | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetric |
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| bathymetry | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| bathyscape | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscaph, bathyscaphe |
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| bathyscaph | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaphe |
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| bathyscaphe | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaph |
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| bathysphere | (noun) spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration | - |
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