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A
unknown · 78% connection
The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Artichoke
noun · 78% connection
The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Dermis
noun · 78% connection
The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Enharmonical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Exfoliate
verb · 78% connection
To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Flake
verb · 78% connection
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Ganoidei
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Imbricated
adjective · 78% connection
Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Lamella
noun · 78% connection
a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Nosology
noun · 78% connection
That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Peel
verb · 78% connection
To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Pill
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Pox
noun · 78% connection
Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Psoriasis
noun · 78% connection
a chronic skin disease characterized by dry red patches covered with scales; occurs especially on the scalp and ears and genitalia and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Pyrogallol
noun · 78% connection
a toxic white lustrous crystalline phenol used to treat certain skin diseases and as a photographic developer
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Rind
noun · 78% connection
The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
Scale
verb · 78% connection
To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: peel, scales, scale, skin, certain.
