| kyanite | (noun) a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory | Synonyms: cyanite |
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| kyat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Myanmar | - |
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| kylie | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kiley |
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| kylix | (noun) a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece | Synonyms: cylix |
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| kymograph | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure) | Synonyms: cymograph |
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| kyphosis | (noun) The property of having an abnormal convex curvature in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine. | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| kyphotic | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked |
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