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Scabrous

Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.

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Dirty 84% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Dirty 84% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Rough 84% connected

Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

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Rough 84% connected

Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

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Lepidote 92% connected

Alt. of Lepidoted

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Leprose 92% connected

Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

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Scaly 92% connected

Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

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Scurfy 92% connected

Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.

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Araucaria noun · 78% connection

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ fro…

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Computer file name noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indica…

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Computer filename noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indica…

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Dedicated file server noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a file server that can be used only as a file server

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Defile verb · 78% connection

To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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File verb · 78% connection

To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.

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File name noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indica…

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Filename noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indica…

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Fragmentation noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk; "fragmentation…

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Geomancy noun · 78% connection

A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

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Gradine noun · 78% connection

Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.

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Hairy adjective · 78% connection

Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

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Ichthyosis noun · 78% connection

A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin.

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Lentinus lepideus noun · 78% connection

a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice

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Lepidoted adjective · 78% connection

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

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Manis noun · 78% connection

A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They…

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Muricated adjective · 78% connection

Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences.

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Pangolin noun · 78% connection

Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales…

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