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Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Anodon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Avicula
noun · 78% connection
A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Bear
noun · 78% connection
Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Borer
noun · 78% connection
A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Buprestidan
noun · 78% connection
One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually bo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Coextension
noun · 78% connection
The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Dermestes
noun · 78% connection
A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Destructive
adjective · 78% connection
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pern…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Drill
noun · 78% connection
A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Elk
noun · 78% connection
A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The Americ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Equivocal
adjective · 78% connection
(Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Francolin
noun · 78% connection
A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly commo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Garfish
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Genus
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Germicide
adjective · 78% connection
Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Grasshopper
noun · 78% connection
Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former famil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
Grunt
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri),…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, marine, bivalves, closely, allied.
