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Acid
noun · 78% connection
One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Aethogen
noun · 78% connection
A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Albuminate
noun · 78% connection
A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Be
verb · 78% connection
To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
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: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Cellulose
noun · 78% connection
The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Certain
adjective · 78% connection
established beyond doubt or question; definitely known; "what is certain is that every effect must have a cause"; "it is certain that…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Cilia
n. pl. · 78% connection
Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Crystallinity
noun · 78% connection
(chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid.; "The crystallinity of drug substances and additives is one of the fundamental…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Deciduous
adjective · 78% connection
Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Dipyre
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Excise
noun · 78% connection
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spiri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Eyestone
noun · 78% connection
A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign sub…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Footstalk
noun · 78% connection
The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Free-swimming
adjective · 78% connection
Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Geometry
noun · 78% connection
That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Hoof
noun · 78% connection
The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
Ignis fatuus
unknown · 78% connection
A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or veg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fatlike, substance, certain, marine, animals.
