ken | (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: cognizance |
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(noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: sight |
kenaf | (noun) valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation | Synonyms: bimli, bimli hemp, Bombay hemp, deccan hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, Indian hemp, kanaf |
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(noun) fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus | Synonyms: deccan hemp |
kencur | (noun) a dried rhizome or its powdered form of Kaempferia galanga, used in cooking in Indonesia. | - |
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kennel | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, doghouse |
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(verb) put up in a kennel | - |
kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
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keno | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, lotto |
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kenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis |
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kenosis | (noun) the concept of emptying one's own will and receive God's will, in Catholicism | - |
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kenotron | (noun) a type of vacuum tube formerly used as a high-voltage rectifier. | - |
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kentan | (noun) east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: devil lily, Lilium lancifolium, tiger lily |
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