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Bloodwort
noun · 78% connection
A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Cast
noun · 78% connection
Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Chaetopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Crane
noun · 78% connection
A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Dakotas
n. pl · 78% connection
An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Diptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctori…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Embiotocoid
noun · 78% connection
One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Exocoetus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Extensive
adjective · 78% connection
Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Foraminifera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Gallinae
noun · 78% connection
An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Ginglymodi
noun · 78% connection
An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Herring
noun · 78% connection
One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Hymenoptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Ichthyology
noun · 78% connection
The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoology which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Ichthyosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia. They have not been foun…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
Labyrinthici
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: extensive, order, fishes, including, salmons.
