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Actuality 76% connected

The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature.

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Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Animalcule 76% connected

A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.

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Animalculum 76% connected

An animalcule.

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Animation 76% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Carrier 76% connected

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

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Coexistence 76% connected

Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.

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Commensal 76% connected

One who eats at the same table.

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Congener 76% connected

A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.

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Congeneric 76% connected

Alt. of Congenerical

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Conspecific 76% connected

Of the same species.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Cross 76% connected

A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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Crossbreed 76% connected

A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stock…

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Denizen 76% connected

A dweller; an inhabitant.

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Diploid 76% connected

A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

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Dwarf 76% connected

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

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Endemic 76% connected

Alt. of Endemical

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Eternity 76% connected

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Flora 76% connected

The goddess of flowers and spring.

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Fungus 76% connected

Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools,…

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Host 76% connected

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

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Hybrid 76% connected

The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Life 76% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Living 76% connected

of Live

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Mascot 76% connected

Alt. of Mascotte

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Microorganism 76% connected

Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Mutation 76% connected

Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.

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Native 76% connected

Arising by birth; having an origin; born.

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Parasite 76% connected

One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.

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Parent 76% connected

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Polymorph 76% connected

A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph.

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Possibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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Postdiluvian 76% connected

Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

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Preexistence 76% connected

Existence in a former state, or previous to something else.

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Presence 76% connected

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

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Relative 76% connected

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

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Relict 76% connected

A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

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Saprophyte 76% connected

Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

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Sitter 76% connected

One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Sport 76% connected

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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Stander 76% connected

One who stands.

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Subsistence 76% connected

Real being; existence.

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Transcendence 76% connected

Alt. of Transcendency

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Transcendency 76% connected

The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.

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Utterer 76% connected

One who utters.

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Variation 76% connected

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation…

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Wight 76% connected

Weight.

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Zooid 76% connected

Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Exist 74% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Exist 74% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Organic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure…

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Organic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure…

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Cell 70% connected

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

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Substance part 1

Tissue 70% connected

A woven fabric.

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Existent 66% connected

Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

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Existent 66% connected

Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

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Synonym 2

Existence 92% connected

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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Organism 92% connected

Organic structure; organization.

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