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Chimaera

A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

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Imagery 76% connected

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

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Imagination 76% connected

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental i…

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Imaging 76% connected

of Image

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Chimerical 74% connected

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical proje…

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Chimerical 74% connected

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical proje…

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Chimera 92% connected

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

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(literary) a spirited horse for state of war

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Floor noun · 85% connection

a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"

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Level noun · 85% connection

a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"

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Storey noun · 85% connection

a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"

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Story noun · 85% connection

a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"

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Attic noun · 84% connection

floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

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Basement noun · 84% connection

the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage

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Cellar noun · 84% connection

the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage

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Entresol noun · 84% connection

intermediate floor just above the ground floor

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Garret noun · 84% connection

floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

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Loft noun · 84% connection

floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space

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Mezzanine noun · 84% connection

intermediate floor just above the ground floor

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Tempest noun · 78% connection

(literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"

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Mental imagery noun · 78% connection

the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"

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Ambiguity noun · 78% connection

unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

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Characterisation noun · 78% connection

a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing…

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Characterization noun · 78% connection

a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing…

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Choice of words noun · 78% connection

the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage" - G.S.Patton

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Alligator noun · 78% connection

A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Angler noun · 78% connection

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar ap…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Auriculated adjective · 78% connection

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Bite verb · 78% connection

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mou…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Bufonite noun · 78% connection

An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick te…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Chondro- unknown · 78% connection

A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Crocodile noun · 78% connection

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Elephant noun · 78% connection

A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are know…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Epithelium noun · 78% connection

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Feather noun · 78% connection

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Fibrillose adjective · 78% connection

Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose app…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Fish noun · 78% connection

the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people start…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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Garfish noun · 78% connection

One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cartilaginous, fish, several, species, belonging.
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