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Roe

A roebuck. See Roebuck.

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Caviar 76% connected

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Caviare 76% connected

Alt. of Caviar

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Coral 76% connected

The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.

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Egg 76% 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…

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Spawn 76% connected

To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

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Fish 70% connected

A counter, used in various games.

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Vitellus noun · 86% connection

nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)

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Yolk noun · 86% connection

nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)

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El Nino noun · 85% connection

(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas ti…

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Oceanography noun · 85% connection

the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans

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Oceanology noun · 85% connection

the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans

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Biodiversity noun · 85% connection

the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole); "a high level of biodiversity is desirabl…

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Ecological niche noun · 85% connection

(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

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ecosystem noun · 85% connection

a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

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Food noun · 85% connection

any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

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Food cycle noun · 85% connection

(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

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Food web noun · 85% connection

(ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

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Habitat noun · 85% connection

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

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Home ground noun · 85% connection

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

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Niche noun · 85% connection

(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

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Nutrient noun · 85% connection

any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

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Restoration noun · 85% connection

a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.

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Trophic adjective · 85% connection

of or relating to nutrition; "a trophic level on the food chain"

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Desertification noun · 85% connection

the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land; "the…

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Capreoline adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

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Girl noun · 78% connection

A roebuck two years old.

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Hemuse noun · 78% connection

The roebuck in its third year.

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Roedeer noun · 78% connection

The roebuck.

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Roebuck noun · 72% connection

A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the sma…

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