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Accessary
adjective · 78% connection
Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Acce…
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Accessory
adjective · 78% connection
Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contribu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: five, united, jaws, accessory, ossicles.
Adambulacral
adjective · 78% connection
Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
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Ambulacral
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.
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Auricula
noun · 78% connection
A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.
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Be
verb · 78% connection
To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
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Bond
noun · 78% connection
That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…
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Chelonia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…
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Clypeastroid
adjective · 78% connection
Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.
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Connate
adjective · 78% connection
Born with another; being of the same birth.
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Echinoidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, compos…
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Fasciole
noun · 78% connection
A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.
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Fin
verb · 78% connection
To carve or cut up, as a chub.
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Five-twenties
n. pl. · 78% connection
Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payabl…
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Jaw
noun · 78% connection
One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
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Lantern-jawed
adjective · 78% connection
Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.
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Lithophagous
adjective · 78% connection
Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.
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Malleus
noun · 78% connection
The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the…
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