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Banister
noun · 78% connection
A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Bat
noun · 78% connection
One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated finger…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Castanets
n. pl. · 78% connection
Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Cinquefoil
noun · 78% connection
The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Digital
adjective · 78% connection
Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Extirpate
verb · 78% connection
To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Fang
verb · 78% connection
The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Fiddle
verb · 78% connection
To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Fillip
verb · 78% connection
To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Finger
noun · 78% connection
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domesti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Fingering
noun · 78% connection
The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Flute
verb · 78% connection
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys whi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Fret
noun · 78% connection
A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the fing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Fusiform
adjective · 78% connection
Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Garlic
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Ginseng
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng)…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Glycyrrhiza
noun · 78% connection
The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
Glycyrrhizin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formed, like, finger, fingers, finger-shaped.
