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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: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Archipelago
noun · 78% connection
Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
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: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Canary bird
unknown · 78% connection
A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th cent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
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: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
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: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Casein
noun · 78% connection
A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and const…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Chalk
noun · 78% connection
A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Cologne earth
unknown · 78% connection
An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Conserve
noun · 78% connection
A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Corroval
noun · 78% connection
A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Cushion
noun · 78% connection
A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Elastic
adjective · 78% connection
Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twiste…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Elastically
adverb · 78% connection
In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Elaterite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Fluorescein
noun · 78% connection
A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
Friezed
adjective · 78% connection
Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vegetable, substance, consisting, soft, elastic.
