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Aplysia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liqu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Arctic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Arctisca
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
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: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Bosporus
noun · 78% connection
A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constant…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Buccinum
noun · 78% connection
A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Burgomaster
noun · 78% connection
A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Chatterer
noun · 78% connection
A prater; an idle talker.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Chelonia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Clepsydra
noun · 78% connection
A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Clidastes
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Dealfish
noun · 78% connection
A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Dermis
noun · 78% connection
The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Dinosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Fox
noun · 78% connection
A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Fulmar
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
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: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
Gyrfalcon
noun · 78% connection
One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, alca, torda, common, arctic.
