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Adamant
noun · 78% connection
A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in…
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Aloe
noun · 78% connection
A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergr…
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Althea
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
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Antenna
noun · 78% connection
A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually fo…
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Antonomasia
noun · 78% connection
The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…
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Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
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Baptize
verb · 78% connection
To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
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Basil
noun · 78% connection
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
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Bennet
adjective · 78% connection
The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, v…
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Bittersweet
noun · 78% connection
A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at…
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Blindworm
noun · 78% connection
A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- f…
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Broom rape
unknown · 78% connection
A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
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Call
noun · 78% connection
the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
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Caterpillar
noun · 78% connection
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
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Claret
noun · 78% connection
The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name…
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Conoid
noun · 78% connection
A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve,…
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Dives
noun · 78% connection
The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a ri…
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Glucoside
noun · 78% connection
One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and rega…
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