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GL Variantes
- semellante [semeˈʎante̝] · [RILG] [DRAG]
Mentres que os seus bordos afiados parecían axitados coma ondas do mar que se propulsan cara arriba con movementos rabiosos, Papa-san sentaba, semellante a un glaciar, coa súa afable solidez e a súa mesma inmobilidade que desafiaba toda a axitación arredor del. [k02 (1)] SemCor Corpus
- similar [simiˈlaɾ] · [RILG] [DRAG]
Por mor da fuga de luz dunha fonte de luz ultravioleta a outra, unha ensamblaxe similar a un conmutador, á que lle dá voltas un motor síncrono, muda as luces. [e25 (24)] SemCor Corpus
PT Variantes
- análogo [ɐnˈalugu]
- semelhante [sɨmɨλˈɐ̃tɨ]
- similar [similˈar]
Glosa
assemelhando-se ou similar; tendo o mesmo ou algumas das mesmas características; muitas vezes utilizado em combinação
CA Variantes
- semblant
ES Variantes
- parecido
- semejante
- similar
EN Variantes
- like ['ɫaɪk]
a limited circle of like minds
as like as two peas in a pod
members of the cat family have like dispositions
suits of like design
- similar ['sɪməɫɝ]
Glosa
resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
DE Variantes
- gleich
IT Variantes
- simile
FR Variantes
- pareil
- semblable
- similaire
Relacións léxico-semánticas no WordNet vía ILI (624) - Amosar / Agochar gráfico:
Synonyms
(near_synonym)
01410036-a: of the same turn of mind
Synonyms
(near_synonym)
01410118-a: resembling closely
Synonyms
(near_synonym)
01410222-a: of the same kind
Antonyms
(near_antonym)
01410363-a: marked by dissimilarity
Related
(related_to)
04743605-n: the quality of being similar
Related
(related_to)
04744814-n: similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things
Related
(see_also_wn15)
02062670-a: closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree
Glosses
(gloss)
02665282-v: appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to
Glosses
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04731497-n: a distinguishing quality
Glosses
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05849789-n: a prominent attribute or aspect of something
Glosses
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00007516-a: like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
Glosses
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00043615-a: of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.
Glosses
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00051942-v: dress like a dandy
Glosses
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00069603-r: in a like manner
Glosses
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00071646-v: torture and torment like a martyr
Glosses
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00105778-v: act as or like a clown
Glosses
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00107895-r: like a girl
Glosses
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00138060-r: in like or similar manner
Glosses
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00138852-r: like a banner
Glosses
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00141914-v: shape like a fork
Glosses
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00144292-r: by or like volcanoes
Glosses
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00201467-r: wildly; like an animal
Glosses
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00216308-a: having hair that feels like velvet
Glosses
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00227301-a: like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads
Glosses
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00232225-v: grow like a plant
Glosses
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00263471-v: make concave; shape like a dish
Glosses
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00268056-r: like an angel
Glosses
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00269881-r: like a boy
Glosses
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00274551-a: like twilight; dim
Glosses
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00279763-r: like a boor, "he behaved boorishly at the party"
Glosses
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00280245-a: small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
Glosses
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00281342-a: glowing or shining like fire
Glosses
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00291471-a: like or characteristic of or befitting a brother
Glosses
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00291665-a: like or characteristic of or befitting a sister
Glosses
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00294366-n: a steady trot like that of a dog
Glosses
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00299144-a: like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg
Glosses
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00299313-a: like the sounds of frogs and crows
Glosses
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00300007-a: like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together
Glosses
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00304946-v: become narrow, like a bottleneck
Glosses
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00320614-a: (especially of butterflies and birds) having a forked tail like that of a swallow
Glosses
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00320756-a: shaped like the tail of an animal
Glosses
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00329495-v: branch out like trees
Glosses
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00331259-a: constituting or like a nucleus
Glosses
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00346095-n: a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
Glosses
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00365799-a: having a granular structure like that of chondrites
Glosses
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00384292-a: of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
Glosses
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00411215-a: becoming to or like a Christian
Glosses
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00411694-a: not becoming to or like a Christian
Glosses
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00427394-r: like a pop or with a pop
Glosses
(rgloss)
00427473-r: like the Pope; in a popish manner
Glosses
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00432164-n: play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
Glosses
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00434657-n: acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel
Glosses
(rgloss)
00441630-a: stupid and ignorant like proverbial rural inhabitants
Glosses
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00444599-r: like a dishonest rogue
Glosses
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00453529-a: like or befitting a cousin
Glosses
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00493845-r: like a voyeur
Glosses
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00510393-r: like a baby
Glosses
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00513401-n: acting like a clown or buffoon
Glosses
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00533773-v: make full of cavities, like a honeycomb
Glosses
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00536103-a: having a concave shape like a boat
Glosses
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00536195-a: having a concave shape with an open top like a bowl
Glosses
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00536304-a: shaped like a pouch
Glosses
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00536655-a: shaped like (or supporting) a cupule
Glosses
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00536792-a: shaped like a dish or pan
Glosses
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00537073-a: having a concave shape like a saucer
Glosses
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00537169-a: depressed like a navel
Glosses
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00537248-a: having a concave shape like an urn
Glosses
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00537745-a: convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil
Glosses
(rgloss)
00546951-a: terse and witty and like a maxim
Glosses
(rgloss)
00547244-n: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
Glosses
(rgloss)
00565592-v: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
Glosses
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00598502-v: discard something previously learnt, like an old habit
Glosses
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00657726-a: shaped like a brick
Glosses
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00657804-a: shaped like a cube
Glosses
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00659617-a: flat; like a table in form
Glosses
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00663576-a: cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel
Glosses
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00696996-a: like a lamb in meekness and gentleness
Glosses
(rgloss)
00726189-a: like a baby especially in dependence
Glosses
(rgloss)
00807277-a: dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
Glosses
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00812626-a: having ears like a mouse's
Glosses
(rgloss)
00838524-v: represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
Glosses
(rgloss)
00862591-v: make a sound like frying fat
Glosses
(rgloss)
00917956-a: of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation
Glosses
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00954390-a: having large round eyes like those of an ox
Glosses
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00957945-v: repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call
Glosses
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00958078-v: repeat back like an echo
Glosses
(rgloss)
00979234-a: like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience
Glosses
(rgloss)
00992716-a: like or full of suet
Glosses
(rgloss)
01052782-v: cry like a cat
Glosses
(rgloss)
01053339-v: cry like a goose
Glosses
(rgloss)
01053539-a: smelling like bilge water
Glosses
(rgloss)
01055661-v: cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/
Glosses
(rgloss)
01056163-a: smelling like cedar
Glosses
(rgloss)
01064401-v: utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
Glosses
(rgloss)
01065614-a: like someone in servitude
Glosses
(rgloss)
01065630-v: utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
Glosses
(rgloss)
01075742-a: like a companion
Glosses
(rgloss)
01147432-v: send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock
Glosses
(rgloss)
01152189-a: made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls
Glosses
(rgloss)
01153165-v: make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil
Glosses
(rgloss)
01154030-a: like down or as soft as down
Glosses
(rgloss)
01173656-v: eat like a bird
Glosses
(rgloss)
01173813-v: eat by pecking at, like a bird
Glosses
(rgloss)
01175132-v: chafe at the bit, like horses
Glosses
(rgloss)
01222333-n: aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman
Glosses
(rgloss)
01225684-v: operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
Glosses
(rgloss)
01238061-v: strike with a sound like that of falling rain
Glosses
(rgloss)
01248958-a: like or suggestive of fire
Glosses
(rgloss)
01265108-a: like a clown
Glosses
(rgloss)
01286093-a: suitable for or like a palace
Glosses
(rgloss)
01345877-v: confine in a fold, like sheep
Glosses
(rgloss)
01353169-v: turn like a screw
Glosses
(rgloss)
01360091-v: string together like beads
Glosses
(rgloss)
01360571-v: stretch out or arrange like a string
Glosses
(rgloss)
01389846-a: like a mountain in size and impressiveness
Glosses
(rgloss)
01416871-v: hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand
Glosses
(rgloss)
01429676-a: resembling or functioning like a leg
Glosses
(rgloss)
01450661-n: very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark
Glosses
(rgloss)
01453718-v: pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance
Glosses
(rgloss)
01463212-v: mat together and make felt-like
Glosses
(rgloss)
01466038-a: like or in the manner of a lover
Glosses
(rgloss)
01470895-n: free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord
Glosses
(rgloss)
01496037-n: rays with bodies shaped like torpedoes
Glosses
(rgloss)
01499457-a: like or containing meat
Glosses
(rgloss)
01527271-v: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
Glosses
(rgloss)
01530378-a: (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage
Glosses
(rgloss)
01544389-n: small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's
Glosses
(rgloss)
01551871-v: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
Glosses
(rgloss)
01554448-n: any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
Glosses
(rgloss)
01565930-n: small Asiatic and African bird; constructs nests like those of tailorbirds
Glosses
(rgloss)
01602907-v: control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
Glosses
(rgloss)
01605404-v: cover like a mantle
Glosses
(rgloss)
01614581-v: fasten with an adhesive material like glue
Glosses
(rgloss)
01615789-v: coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface
Glosses
(rgloss)
01623425-n: small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers whose call sounds like a quavering whistle
Glosses
(rgloss)
01631072-v: reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
Glosses
(rgloss)
01643507-n: of southwest United States and Mexico; call is like a dog's bark
Glosses
(rgloss)
01644967-a: of or like a feeble old woman
Glosses
(rgloss)
01681492-v: paint or stain like marble
Glosses
(rgloss)
01687586-a: being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before
Glosses
(rgloss)
01700470-n: herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
Glosses
(rgloss)
01701017-a: like a bower; leafy and shady
Glosses
(rgloss)
01706686-n: duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet
Glosses
(rgloss)
01708106-n: herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile
Glosses
(rgloss)
01724231-n: any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs
Glosses
(rgloss)
01728266-n: any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop
Glosses
(rgloss)
01730384-v: sing using syllables like `do', `re' and `mi' to represent the tones of the scale
Glosses
(rgloss)
01734607-a: like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective
Glosses
(rgloss)
01734808-n: nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes
Glosses
(rgloss)
01735252-a: suggestive of or acting like a mother
Glosses
(rgloss)
01742447-n: boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America; looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape
Glosses
(rgloss)
01751748-n: any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom
Glosses
(rgloss)
01756940-a: tending to vanish like vapor
Glosses
(rgloss)
01775980-a: having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel
Glosses
(rgloss)
01783214-v: haunt like a ghost; pursue
Glosses
(rgloss)
01787835-n: large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse
Glosses
(rgloss)
01810011-a: shaped like a spine or thorn
Glosses
(rgloss)
01810453-a: pointed like bristles
Glosses
(rgloss)
01824862-n: Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant
Glosses
(rgloss)
01839538-v: move like a floating object
Glosses
(rgloss)
01839807-v: move like a ghost
Glosses
(rgloss)
01839949-n: southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck
Glosses
(rgloss)
01876667-n: bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit
Glosses
(rgloss)
01882125-n: nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body
Glosses
(rgloss)
01886228-v: crawl about like ants
Glosses
(rgloss)
01888165-v: move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
Glosses
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01900156-v: flutter like a butterfly
Glosses
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01902678-v: scurry sideways like a crab
Glosses
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01903631-n: a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head
Glosses
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01918744-n: biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
Glosses
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01920697-a: noisy like the sound of a bee
Glosses
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01922030-a: sounding like thunder
Glosses
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01922131-a: like the sound of rapidly vibrating wings
Glosses
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01941340-n: any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing
Glosses
(rgloss)
01942560-v: soar or fly like a kite
Glosses
(rgloss)
01944086-v: shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
Glosses
(rgloss)
01950457-n: comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slug
Glosses
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01961859-v: swim like a dog in shallow water
Glosses
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01963317-n: marine bivalve mollusk having a heavy toothed shell with a deep boat-like inner surface
Glosses
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01963459-v: dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife
Glosses
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01992262-n: terrestrial isopod having an oval segmented body (a shape like a sow)
Glosses
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01993214-n: small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
Glosses
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01994910-n: minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
Glosses
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02005778-v: return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang
Glosses
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02006656-n: wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
Glosses
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02008082-a: capable of reflecting light like a mirror
Glosses
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02008820-a: like or characteristic of an echo
Glosses
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02008917-a: like or characteristic of a mirror image
Glosses
(rgloss)
02009880-a: like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped
Glosses
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02010266-a: having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells
Glosses
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02010831-a: like the short high ringing sound of a small bell
Glosses
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02028616-v: move together, like a herd
Glosses
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02029087-n: Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew
Glosses
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02041807-a: shaped like a bulb
Glosses
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02042078-a: spherical; like a coccus
Glosses
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02042183-a: shaped like a cumulus cloud
Glosses
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02043142-a: round like a wheel
Glosses
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02044642-a: shaped like a sausage
Glosses
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02044736-a: shaped like an almond
Glosses
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02044860-a: shaped like a ring
Glosses
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02045894-a: having a round or oval shape like a disc
Glosses
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02046199-a: rounded like an egg
Glosses
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02046736-a: shaped like a tongue
Glosses
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02047148-v: whirl or spin like a whirligig
Glosses
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02047160-a: shaped like a cylindrical pillar
Glosses
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02048344-a: shaped like a star
Glosses
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02049243-a: shaped like a square
Glosses
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02049428-a: having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle
Glosses
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02050368-a: shaped like a cucumber
Glosses
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02062430-n: large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
Glosses
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02071316-v: rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
Glosses
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02072394-v: to overflow like a geyser
Glosses
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02080415-n: either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
Glosses
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02083694-v: collapse like a concertina
Glosses
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02085004-v: run quickly, like a hare
Glosses
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02085320-v: spread over a surface, like a mantle
Glosses
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02093920-v: move like a flail; thresh about
Glosses
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02116304-a: acting like an antiseptic
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02116450-n: small wild dog of eastern Asia having facial markings like those of a raccoon
Glosses
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02123007-a: playful like a lively kitten
Glosses
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02131958-a: like a coquette
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02138283-v: project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette
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02138441-n: a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes
Glosses
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02141021-a: like or containing small sticky lumps
Glosses
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02141611-n: a carnivorous bat with ears like a mouse
Glosses
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02144834-a: shaped like an acorn
Glosses
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02144913-a: shaped like an awl
Glosses
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02144988-a: formed like a bacillus
Glosses
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02145135-a: shaped like a bag
Glosses
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02145209-a: shaped like a rigid strip of metal or wood
Glosses
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02145308-a: shaped like a basket
Glosses
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02145388-a: shaped like a belt
Glosses
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02145598-a: shaped like a boot
Glosses
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02145674-a: shaped like a bottle
Glosses
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02145754-a: shaped like a sausage
Glosses
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02145832-a: shaped like a butterfly
Glosses
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02145918-a: shaped like a button
Glosses
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02146159-a: shaped like a claw
Glosses
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02146481-a: shaped like a cowl
Glosses
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02146990-v: hide in the earth like a hunted animal
Glosses
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02148109-a: shaped like a lance
Glosses
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02148450-a: shaped like a lyre
Glosses
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02148526-a: shaped like a boat
Glosses
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02148648-a: shaped like a nutmeg
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03606719-n: (Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its direction when praying
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03715892-n: a sports implement with a long handle and a head like a hammer; used in sports (polo or croquet) to hit a ball
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03854998-n: a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality
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03935335-n: a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig)
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03948830-n: a handle (as of a gun or saw) shaped like the butt of a pistol
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07391682-n: a sound like whistling or snoring that is heard with a stethoscope during expiration as air passes through obstructed channels
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07392783-n: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
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07444495-n: something that may increase or decrease (like the tides of the sea)
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07684289-n: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
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07754451-n: a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts
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07762373-n: South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves
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07762913-n: huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts
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07763290-n: round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes
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07798985-n: small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines
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07818825-n: stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers
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07820297-n: leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
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07822323-n: aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces
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07835547-n: a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice
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07854614-n: soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese
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07857356-n: the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish
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07877575-n: like steak and kidney pie but without steak
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07895435-n: dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine
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07926785-n: South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
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07934152-n: tea-like drink made from camomile leaves and flowers
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08506347-n: a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions
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09322087-n: any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
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09353603-n: an electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents
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09401159-n: a constellation in the southern hemisphere between Vela and Canis Major that shaped like the stern of a boat
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09418810-n: a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
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09456369-n: a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system
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09471349-n: something that covers or cloaks like a garment
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10133307-n: a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people
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10149128-n: a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl
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10454645-n: a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
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10905703-n: United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962)
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11076079-n: general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
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11414041-n: the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
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11442073-n: a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
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11479816-n: phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet
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11480284-n: phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed
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11480521-n: materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed
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11531334-n: a plant that tends to climb and on occasion can grow like a vine
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11599324-n: curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old
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11634736-n: tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark
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11646694-n: Australian conifer bearing two-inch seeds tasting like roasted chestnuts; among the aborigines the tree is hereditary property protected by law
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11690737-n: a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids
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11710393-n: small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
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11710827-n: American deciduous magnolia having large leaves and fruit like a small cucumber
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11721642-n: semiaquatic Eurasian perennial crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears; naturalized in New Zealand
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11722036-n: semiaquatic European crowfoot with leaves shaped like spears
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11737125-n: herb of the Mediterranean region having pungent seeds used like those of caraway
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11762237-n: small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia
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11774279-n: deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers
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11789589-n: tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor
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11793403-n: tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes
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11801665-n: hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe
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11870418-n: European herb that smells like garlic
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11874878-n: plant of southeastern Europe having yellow flowers like those of mustard and pods with open valves resembling bucklers
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12013035-n: perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots
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12059314-n: a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers
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12087207-n: family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers
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12114770-n: perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill
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12116734-n: a creeping grass with spikes like fingers
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12128825-n: tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
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12154773-n: any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves
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12161285-n: squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
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12184095-n: any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers
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12272883-n: small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having leaves that shine like laurel; wood is used in western states for shingles
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12286988-n: medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn
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12378963-n: a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
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12400489-n: native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
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12403075-n: shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
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12412850-n: any of various irises having a rootstock formed like a bulb
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12434985-n: European leek cultivated and used like leeks
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12436677-n: succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa
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12446737-n: any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears
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12447581-n: small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana
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12453186-n: Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental
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12474167-n: any of several plants of the genus Polygonatum having paired drooping yellowish-green flowers and a thick rootstock with scars shaped like Solomon's seal
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12516584-n: any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes
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12527081-n: South African evergreen partly woody vine grown for its clusters of rosy purple flowers followed by edible pods like snap beans; also grown as green manure; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
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12537569-n: perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
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12539306-n: any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines
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12544240-n: widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder
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12554242-n: large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal
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12561897-n: evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania
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12569426-n: any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers
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12573474-n: western United States bushy herb having yellow pea-like flowers
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12577895-n: perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
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12585373-n: nut having a hard hazel-brown shell used like vegetable ivory
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12591017-n: Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young
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12593341-n: nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts
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12676134-n: a variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine; established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States
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12705698-n: common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
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12717224-n: deciduous rapidly growing tree of China with foliage like sumac and sweetish fetid flowers; widely planted in United States as a street tree because of its resistance to pollution
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12719944-n: strong-growing annual climber having large flowers of all shades of orange from orange-red to yellowish orange and seeds that are pickled and used like capers
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12727729-n: willow of the western United States with leaves like those of peach or almond trees
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12754981-n: Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
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12757668-n: South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
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12775919-n: tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
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12816508-n: hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
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12821257-n: a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels
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12833985-n: any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses
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12840362-n: much-branched North American herb with an odor like fennel
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12850906-n: relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco
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12855494-n: a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America
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12855710-n: mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange
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12856868-n: oil from European pennyroyal having an odor like mint; used chiefly in soaps
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12866635-n: Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States
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12960378-n: ferns with fertile spikes shaped like a snake's tongue
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12969670-n: an earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel
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12985857-n: any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral
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13004640-n: a mildly poisonous fungus with a fruiting body shaped like a hollow trumpet
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13011461-n: an organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum
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13034788-n: a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower
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13040796-n: this stinkhorn has a cap with a granulose surface at the apex and smells like decaying flesh
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13040971-n: closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus
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13058037-n: an edible fungus with a pinkish purple cap and stalk and a pore surface that is yellow with large angular pores that become like gills in maturity
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13062421-n: widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood
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13081050-n: genus of imperfect fungi causing plant diseases like smut
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13090248-n: a multicellular hair in plants like the stinging nettle that expels an irritating fluid
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13138155-n: one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry
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13157971-n: a simple leaf shaped like a capital delta
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13158071-n: a simple leaf shaped like an ellipse
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13158258-n: a leaf shaped like a spearhead with flaring pointed lobes at the base
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13158386-n: a leaf shaped like a lance head; tapering to a point at each end
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13159778-n: a leaf shaped like an arrow head
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13160695-n: a leaf having a margin notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
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13162164-n: (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
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13178284-n: east Asian fern having fronds shaped like tongues; sometimes placed in genus Cyclophorus
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13189428-n: fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay
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13199970-n: any of various ferns of the genus Polystichum having fronds with texture and gloss like holly
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13467443-n: a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other
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13869129-n: something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose)
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13901925-n: anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring)
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14402763-n: a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
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14466567-n: an abnormality of development in which the upper part of an arm or leg is missing so the hands or feet are attached to the body like stumps; rare condition that results from taking thalidomide during pregnancy
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14575063-n: the condition of being treated like a god
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14613368-n: a highly poisonous gas or volatile liquid that smells like bitter almonds; becomes a gas at around 90 degree Fahrenheit and is most dangerous when inhaled; the anhydride of hydrocyanic acid; used in manufacturing
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14656001-n: a radioactive isotope of strontium (with the mass number 90) that is present in the fallout from nuclear explosions; can be assimilated like calcium into bones
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14696793-n: material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
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14705386-n: an adhesive made by dissolving unvulcanized rubber in a solvent like benzene or naphtha
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14744120-n: the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion
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14744841-n: (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone
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14791988-n: a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats or made synthetically; smells like goats
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14827763-n: a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor
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14830364-n: (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
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14870924-n: a ketone that forms the nucleus of certain natural yellow pigments like riboflavin
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14889074-n: any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus
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14954284-n: a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
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14981847-n: a colorless poisonous gas that smells like new-mown hay; used in chemical warfare
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14989106-n: scarlet dye like cochineal; extracted with alkali from stick lac
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15010703-n: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
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15045677-n: a crystalline salt used like potassium iodide
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15102167-n: an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines