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Aleutic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Allspice
noun · 78% connection
The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jama…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Amphiscians
n. pl. · 78% connection
The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Appellative
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Archipelago
noun · 78% connection
The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Arrack
noun · 78% connection
A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Boatswain
noun · 78% connection
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Booby
noun · 78% connection
A dunce; a stupid fellow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Breadfruit
noun · 78% connection
The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, fro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Cancer
noun · 78% connection
A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Capricorn
noun · 78% connection
The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Carib
noun · 78% connection
A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Caribbee
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lyin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Conch
noun · 78% connection
A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Dodecatemory
noun · 78% connection
A tern applied to the twelve houses, or parts, of the zodiac of the primum mobile, to distinguish them from the twelve signs; also, an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Doncella
noun · 78% connection
A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Flamboyer
noun · 78% connection
A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
Hagdon
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagd…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, tern, sooty, sterna, fuliginosa.
