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Nut

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

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Block 76% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Collect 76% connected

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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Eccentric 76% connected

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center o…

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Enthusiast 76% connected

One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman;…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flake 76% connected

A paling; a hurdle.

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Garner 76% connected

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Gonad 76% connected

One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gl…

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Partisan 76% connected

An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Mast 76% connected

The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.

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Nutlet 76% connected

A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

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Testicular 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the testicle.

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Testicular 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the testicle.

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Epididymis 70% connected

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.

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Containing whole 1

Pica 70% connected

The genus that includes the magpies.

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Synonym 9

Addict 92% connected

Addicted; devoted.

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Ball 92% connected

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crank 92% connected

A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Egg 92% connected

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or album…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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En 92% connected

Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.

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Freak 92% connected

To variegate; to checker; to streak.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Orchis 92% connected

A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tub…

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Testicle 92% connected

One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Testis 92% connected

A testicle.

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