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Crotonbug

small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest

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Cockroach 76% connected

An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

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Roach 76% connected

A cockroach.

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Croton bug 92% connected

A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those wi…

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Water bug 92% connected

The Croton bug.

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Anthrenus noun · 78% connection

A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pe…

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Bluebonnet noun · 78% connection

low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock pois…

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Brown thrush noun · 78% connection

common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage

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Butternut noun · 78% connection

North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye

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Canary bird unknown · 78% connection

A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th cent…

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Circuit noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…

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Confederate adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…

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Conium noun · 78% connection

The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America,…

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Constitutional Convention noun · 78% connection

the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

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Copperhead noun · 78% connection

common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States

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Dover's Powder unknown · 78% connection

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…

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Drummer noun · 78% connection

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

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Fed noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Federal Reserve noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Federal Reserve System noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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FRS noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Greencloth noun · 78% connection

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and…

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Household adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.

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