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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: liver, common, allied, species.
Basking shark
unknown · 78% connection
One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone sh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Botfly
noun · 78% connection
A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Cicada
noun · 78% connection
Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Francolin
noun · 78% connection
A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly commo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Fumitory
noun · 78% connection
The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Gall
noun · 78% connection
The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
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: liver, common, allied, species.
Genus
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Goatsucker
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Euro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Hepar
noun · 78% connection
Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Hepato-pancreas
noun · 78% connection
A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Hepatogenous
adjective · 78% connection
Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Hepatology
noun · 78% connection
The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Hoemother
noun · 78% connection
The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Jacamar
noun · 78% connection
Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
Jay
noun · 78% connection
Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liver, common, allied, species.
