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Badger
noun · 78% connection
A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
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: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Bicentenary
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Braize
noun · 78% connection
A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Briarean
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Calypso
noun · 78% connection
A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Cashew
noun · 78% connection
A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Cent
noun · 78% connection
A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Dentex
noun · 78% connection
An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidae.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Flounder
noun · 78% connection
A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Garfish
noun · 78% connection
A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel gu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Grower
noun · 78% connection
One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Hake
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Laver
noun · 78% connection
The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
League
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and us…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
Ling
adjective · 78% connection
A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, northern, marine, flatfish, hippoglossus.
