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Anacharis
noun · 78% connection
A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Anas
noun · 78% connection
A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Avicula
noun · 78% connection
A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Beard
noun · 78% connection
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Bite
verb · 78% connection
To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Bivalve
noun · 78% connection
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
But
adv. & conj. · 78% connection
Except with; unless with; without.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Cephalata
n. pl. · 78% connection
A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustrati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Cypris
noun · 78% connection
A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Distill
n. & v · 78% connection
To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Drill
verb · 78% connection
To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Escutcheon
noun · 78% connection
The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Fresh
superl · 78% connection
Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Fresh-water
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Freshen
verb · 78% connection
To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Horse
noun · 78% connection
A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Lamprey
noun · 78% connection
An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
Langya
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, fresh-water, bivalves, teeth, hinge.
