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ili-30-09207288-n CILI: i85019
WordNet Domains: geography
SUMO Ontology: Continent@
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Epinonyms: [3] dry_land
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- Asia · [RILG] [DRAG]
Glosa
o continente máis grande co 60% da poboación da Terra, na unión co oeste de Europa conforma Eurasia, que é a área dalgunhas das máis antigas civilizacións do mundo
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- ásia
Glosa
o maior continente com 60% da população da terra; é integrado à Europa a oeste para formar Eurásia; é o site de algumas das civilizações mais antigas do mundo
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- Àsia
EU Variantes
- Asia
Kang Yong-Koo eta Kang Ji-Koo bikiak Seul-en bizi dira, Hego Koreako hiriburuan, Asiako ekialdean
Glosa
munduko sei kontinenteetako bat, handiena eta populatuena
ES Variantes
- Asia
EN Variantes
- Asia ['eɪʒə]
Glosa
the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
DE Variantes
- Asien
LA Variantes
- Asia
IT Variantes
- Asia
FR Variantes
- Asie
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- 亚洲
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09254614-n: one of the large landmasses of the earth
Holonyms
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09275016-n: the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
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08700255-n: any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
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08701942-n: a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
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08703454-n: a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
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08715110-n: a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore
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08723006-n: a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
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08724545-n: a historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West
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08798382-n: an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
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08800258-n: an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome
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08847694-n: a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
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08848094-n: an island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia; oil revenues funded progressive programs until reserves were exhausted in 1970s
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08848731-n: a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
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08852209-n: a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of India
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08900535-n: a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
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08906374-n: a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China
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08906952-n: an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas
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08910668-n: a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil
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08912842-n: an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
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08913434-n: a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq
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08921850-n: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
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08927186-n: an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea
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08929243-n: an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of petroleum
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08954611-n: an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook
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08955082-n: a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
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08955626-n: a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
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08957381-n: an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean
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08964810-n: a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar
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08968390-n: the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries
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08968677-n: a vast region in Asia including the Mongolian People's Republic and China's Inner Mongolia
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08968879-n: a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia
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08975106-n: a strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil
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08975902-n: a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
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08978821-n: an ancient kingdom in Asia to the southeast of the Caspian Sea; it dominated southwestern Asia from about 250 BC to AD 226
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08986905-n: an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil
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09007613-n: the Russia that is part of Asia
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09019726-n: a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991
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09020440-n: a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991
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09020961-n: a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
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09021503-n: a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
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09022265-n: a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
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09033333-n: an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization
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09038597-n: a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
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09044190-n: a federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; rich in oil reserves
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09164561-n: a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990
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09194710-n: a mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward into western Mongolia and northern China
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09205890-n: a river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River
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09293340-n: ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
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09328148-n: a river in western Asia; rises in northeast Turkey and flows to the Caspian Sea
Related
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02942200-a: of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples
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02968525-a: of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture
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02968525-a: of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture
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03374102-n: (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to go
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08023843-n: the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia; advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state
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01291069-v: make contact or come together
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01382086-a: above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
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02448185-v: create (as an entity)
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08111783-n: a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
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08651247-n: the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
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09254614-n: one of the large landmasses of the earth
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09270894-n: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
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09275016-n: the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
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09275473-n: the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
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13779804-n: the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)
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00825807-a: denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia
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01439808-n: large Old World freshwater bottom-feeding fish introduced into Europe from Asia; inhabits ponds and sluggish streams and often raised for food; introduced into United States where it has become a pest
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01440764-n: freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water
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01486838-n: small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia
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01528845-n: a common pipit that is brown above and white below; widely distributed in northern and central Europe and in Asia
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01554825-n: type genus of the Pittidae; a large genus of birds of southern Asia and Australia and adjacent islands
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01562451-n: songbird of northern Europe and Asia
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01577941-n: dark brown crested bird of southeastern Asia
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01614556-n: brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia
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01615703-n: of southeast Europe and central Asia
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01630284-n: small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
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01633781-n: large (up to more than three feet) edible salamander of Asia
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01650167-n: arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
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01690466-n: snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail
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01693175-n: a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia
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01694709-n: any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
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01697611-n: estuarine crocodile of eastern Asia and Pacific islands
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01697978-n: crocodile of southeast Asia similar to but smaller than the gavial
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01732244-n: any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia
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01740721-n: blind snakes of Asia and Africa and Americas
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01744100-n: of southeast Asia and East Indies; the largest snake in the world
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01744270-n: very large python of southeast Asia
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01746359-n: any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia
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01748264-n: a cobra of tropical Africa and Asia
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01748906-n: large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja
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01751036-n: brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula
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01753488-n: highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye
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01788291-n: horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia
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01791463-n: a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl
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01795900-n: a black grouse of western Asia
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01804163-n: brightly colored crested pheasant of mountains of western and central Asia
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01805321-n: brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia
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01806467-n: peafowl of southeast Asia
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01829413-n: bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers
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01833112-n: swift of eastern Asia; produces the edible bird's nest
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01833415-n: birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees
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01837072-n: insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth
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01839086-n: woodpecker of Europe and western Asia
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01842788-n: small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae
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01856380-n: very large wild goose of northeast Asia; interbreeds freely with the greylag
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01891013-n: shrew mole of eastern Asia
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01908042-n: a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia
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01926689-n: fluke that is parasitic on humans and swine; common in eastern Asia
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01961985-n: tropical marine bivalve found chiefly off eastern Asia and Pacific coast of North America and Central America; a major source of pearls
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01985493-n: small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
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02035210-n: stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings
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02039171-n: swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
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02054036-n: large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
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02072040-n: any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia
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02091831-n: old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds; from Egypt and southwestern Asia
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02108551-n: very large powerful rough-coated dog native to central Asia
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02115913-n: fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs
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02116450-n: small wild dog of eastern Asia having facial markings like those of a raccoon
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02117135-n: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
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02126317-n: small spotted wildcat of southern Asia and Malaysia
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02127678-n: of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia
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02128757-n: large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
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02129604-n: large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
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02130308-n: long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game
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02133704-n: bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
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02134418-n: common coarse-haired long-snouted bear of south-central Asia
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02135610-n: common civet of India and southeast Asia
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02135844-n: a common civet of southeast Asia
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02136103-n: arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair
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02137722-n: keen-sighted viverrine of southern Asia about the size of a ferret; often domesticated
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02138169-n: spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies
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02173373-n: small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia; serious plant pest in North America
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02232223-n: tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body; common in southern Asia and the East Indies
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02276355-n: of temperate Europe and Asia; having black wings with red and white markings
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02305085-n: giant saturniid moth widespread in Asia; sometimes cultured for silk
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02310149-n: larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls
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02322047-n: of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese
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02328429-n: small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
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02333909-n: common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide
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02343058-n: a variety of hamster common to Europe and Asia
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02352002-n: small nocturnal jumping rodent with long hind legs; of arid parts of Asia and northern Africa
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02357111-n: common reddish-brown squirrel of Europe and parts of Asia
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02360135-n: chipmunks of western America and Asia
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02360282-n: a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body
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02362194-n: nocturnal rodent of Asia having furry folds of skin between forelegs and hind legs enabling it to move by gliding leaps
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02372584-n: any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
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02381831-n: wild horse of central Asia that resembles an ass; now endangered
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02390454-n: any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa
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02391994-n: massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
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02393580-n: large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout
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02404906-n: domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia
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02408660-n: upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk
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02410141-n: ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur
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02414043-n: hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur
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02414763-n: wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia
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02415130-n: bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia
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02419056-n: short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia
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02423022-n: small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
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02431122-n: common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
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02431628-n: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
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02435216-n: small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk
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02435853-n: very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa
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02436224-n: small chevrotain of southeastern Asia
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02437312-n: one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia
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02437482-n: two-humped camel of the cold deserts of central Asia
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02445171-n: otter found in Europe and Asia
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02448060-n: a variety of badger native to Europe and Asia
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02448318-n: nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia
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02448633-n: small ferret-like badger of southeast Asia
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02461830-n: toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
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02475078-n: extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
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02483362-n: smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
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02484473-n: of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
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02487347-n: short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
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02487547-n: of southern Asia; used in medical research
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02488003-n: monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines
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02488291-n: slender long-tailed monkey of Asia
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02488415-n: langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India
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02495242-n: insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
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02498355-n: slow-moving omnivorous nocturnal primates of tropical Asia; usually tailless
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02499022-n: stocky lemur of southeastern Asia
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02502514-n: arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps
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02504196-n: albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia
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02523427-n: elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
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02556014-n: small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia
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02585872-n: freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
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02619550-n: found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins
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02942200-a: of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples
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02968525-a: of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture
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03024132-a: relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia
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03087685-a: of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia
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03690851-n: a globular water bottle used in Asia
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04613696-n: a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
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06241576-n: an offensive name for the early conservative Theravada Buddhism; it died out in India but survived in Sri Lanka and was taken from there to other regions of southwestern Asia
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06244852-n: an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans
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06926212-n: a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
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06928047-n: a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan)
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06930934-n: the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
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06934132-n: a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia
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06936620-n: a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia
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06941644-n: the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
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06968707-n: a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.
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06986558-n: a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
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06988307-n: a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
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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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07770869-n: seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia
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07925808-n: an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia
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08002717-n: an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny
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08023843-n: the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia; advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state
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08025835-n: a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries
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08098708-n: a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha
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08168831-n: underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
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08298074-n: the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East
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08701942-n: a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
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08703454-n: a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
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08715110-n: a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore
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08715390-n: a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
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08716738-n: a nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946
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08723006-n: a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
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08724545-n: a historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West
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08730354-n: an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
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08731606-n: a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam
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08792548-n: Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine
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08798382-n: an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
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08800258-n: an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome
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08831004-n: a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
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08841956-n: a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
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08848731-n: a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
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08900535-n: a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
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08907606-n: a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
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08910668-n: a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil
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08912842-n: an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
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08913242-n: an ancient country in southwestern Asia to the east of the Tigris River (in what is modern Iran); was known for its warlike people
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08913434-n: a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq
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08920381-n: a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
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08927186-n: an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea
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08929243-n: an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of petroleum
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08956760-n: a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949
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08963369-n: a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957
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08964810-n: a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar
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08968390-n: the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries
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08968677-n: a vast region in Asia including the Mongolian People's Republic and China's Inner Mongolia
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08968879-n: a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia
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08975617-n: an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India
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08978821-n: an ancient kingdom in Asia to the southeast of the Caspian Sea; it dominated southwestern Asia from about 250 BC to AD 226
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08993288-n: an absolute monarchy occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia; vast oil reserves dominate the economy
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08997487-n: a country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965
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09002814-n: a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
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09003284-n: a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
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09006413-n: a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
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09007613-n: the Russia that is part of Asia
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09007723-n: formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
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09017526-n: a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of ancient Armenia which was one of the world's oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by their neighbors
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09018162-n: a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
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09020440-n: a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991
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09020961-n: a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
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09021503-n: a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
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09022265-n: a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
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09036452-n: a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula
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09036880-n: the capital and largest city and chief port of Thailand; a leading city in southeastern Asia; noted for Buddhist architecture
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09038597-n: a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
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09163584-n: a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War
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09163844-n: a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam
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09167767-n: a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia
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09194710-n: a mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward into western Mongolia and northern China
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09205890-n: a river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River
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09223325-n: a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans
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09238674-n: the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia
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09271291-n: part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
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09274739-n: a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia
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09275016-n: the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
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09293340-n: ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
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09306257-n: a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta
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09311259-n: the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south
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09320485-n: the isthmus in northeastern Egypt that connects Africa and Asia
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09328148-n: a river in western Asia; rises in northeast Turkey and flows to the Caspian Sea
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09336853-n: a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
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09350045-n: the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
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09375606-n: a ravine or gully in southern Asia
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09384223-n: a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China
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09428171-n: an arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia
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09441107-n: a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons
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09458587-n: a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles
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09467185-n: a mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia
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09481285-n: river in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China)
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09481523-n: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai
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09481958-n: part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia
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09641757-n: a native or inhabitant of Asia
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09644657-n: a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century
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09729156-n: a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia
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09735913-n: a member of a Turkic people living near Lake Aral in central Asia
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09736035-n: a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)
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09967555-n: a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia
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10786992-n: (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
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10934154-n: Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
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11241300-n: Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)
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11254393-n: Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
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11291575-n: Macedonian general who accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia; founded a line of kings who reigned in Asia Minor until 65 BC (358-281 BC)
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11484570-n: a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter
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11616662-n: medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark
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11626010-n: tall spruce of northern Europe and Asia; resembles Norway spruce
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11634526-n: tall evergreens of western North America and eastern Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus
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11648776-n: any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals
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11657314-n: small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea
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11698562-n: tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
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11698895-n: herbaceous perennials of Mediterranean to India and eastern Asia
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11699283-n: evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia
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11700401-n: shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia
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11705921-n: aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America
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11709450-n: shrubs or trees of North America or Asia having entire evergreen or deciduous leaves; among most ancient of angiosperm genera
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11711289-n: large deciduous shrub or small tree having large open rosy to purplish flowers; native to Asia; prized as an ornamental in eastern North America
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11716167-n: blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia
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11717399-n: native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers
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11729142-n: bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
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11758628-n: small genus of trees of tropical Asia and Pacific areas
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11764231-n: thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia
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11770013-n: genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia
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11770256-n: evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally
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11770969-n: small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia
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11772702-n: genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia
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11779801-n: type genus of the Araceae: tuberous perennial herbs of Europe and Asia with usually heart-shaped leaves
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11781430-n: climbing herbs of southeastern Asia having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen
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11782878-n: putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber
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11783162-n: foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix
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11786365-n: small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of tropical Asia: taro
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11787190-n: any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia
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11788536-n: small genus of evergreen lianas of southeastern Asia to western Pacific areas
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11791819-n: evergreen climbers with adhesive adventitious roots; southeastern Asia and Brazil
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11795049-n: of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia
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11799520-n: perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng
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11811706-n: common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
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11817501-n: prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America
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11824344-n: erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes
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11825013-n: annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
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11855435-n: pokeweed of southeastern Asia and China
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11860801-n: small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia
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11871916-n: annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress
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11878808-n: plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia
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11880610-n: annual and biennial herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia
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11904743-n: herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers
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11905584-n: herbs of Europe and North Africa and Asia: horned poppy
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11906359-n: a perennial herb of eastern Asia: plume poppy
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11918631-n: herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers
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11927215-n: herb of pasture and open woodland throughout most of Europe and western Asia having orange-yellow daisylike flower heads that when dried are used as a stimulant and to treat bruises and swellings
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11941261-n: genus of tall leafy perennial herbs of eastern America and eastern Asia having flowers that resemble asters
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11942875-n: genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor; in some classifications includes many plants usually placed in genus Emilia
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11981817-n: large genus of perennial hairy herbs of Europe to western Asia to northwestern Africa and North America; few are ornamental; often considered congeneric with Pilosella
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11995396-n: annual aromatic weed of Pacific coastal areas (United States and northeastern Asia) having bristle-pointed leaves and rayless yellow flowers
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12033310-n: genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia
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12038406-n: bellflower of Europe to temperate Asia having dense spikes of violet-blue to white flowers
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12038898-n: bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad
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12044269-n: epiphytic orchids of tropical Asia having stiff leaves and fragrant white flowers in arching racemes
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12051103-n: orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers
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12058429-n: genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa
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12059090-n: large genus and variable genus of chiefly epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Asia and Australasia
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12063887-n: small genus of large epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of southeastern Asia to Polynesia; the giants of the Orchidaceae having long narrow leaves and drooping flower clusters often 6 feet long
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12070950-n: genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem; found in temperate Asia and North America and Europe
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12071477-n: orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland
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12071744-n: orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia
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12074678-n: a hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia
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12075495-n: horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium
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12076381-n: genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia
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12081488-n: genus of epiphytic orchids of tropical Asia
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12081851-n: diminutive epiphytic or lithophytic orchids with clumped short-stemmed foliage and arching racemes of colorful flowers; Australia and Polynesia to southeastern Asia
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12088768-n: yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers
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12090702-n: very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers
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12094612-n: featherfoil of Europe and western Asia having submerged and floating leaves and violet flowers
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12095781-n: frequently considered a weed; Europe and Asia
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12097013-n: evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand)
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12097180-n: tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas
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12110352-n: oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia
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12111043-n: drought-resistant perennial with awns lacking or very short and long creeping rhizomes; Europe and temperate Asia
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12111627-n: annual grass of Europe and temperate Asia
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12111744-n: grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia
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12117912-n: coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
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12123932-n: barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
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12125398-n: a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae grown in America and Asia
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12127575-n: extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and in United States sometimes for forage
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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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12129134-n: tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia
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12132092-n: slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia
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12132299-n: tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane
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12135270-n: coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States
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12137791-n: sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
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12146100-n: lawn grasses native to southeastern Asia and New Zealand; grown especially in warm regions
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12155773-n: tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa
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12156117-n: reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia
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12163456-n: bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries; Europe; North Africa; western Asia
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12167955-n: a genus of shrubs and herbs that grow in Australia and New Guinea and Malaysia and southeast Asia
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12172481-n: bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus
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12173069-n: tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States
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12190869-n: tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
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12199030-n: genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another
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12199564-n: small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
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12202352-n: chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia
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12202712-n: deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood
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12204546-n: widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia
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12240715-n: evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya
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12241699-n: deciduous shrubs of North America and eastern Asia
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12242850-n: small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States
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12249542-n: low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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12251997-n: evergreen perennial herbs of North America and eastern Asia: oconee bells
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12257343-n: small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east Asia
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12263204-n: wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
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12287388-n: deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae
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12303083-n: any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers
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12306717-n: any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia
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12315424-n: small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia
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12322501-n: any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia
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12326369-n: deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny
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12329020-n: shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers
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12329473-n: native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers
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12343092-n: plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America
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12345280-n: shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
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12349315-n: evergreen spreading shrub of India and southeastern Asia having large purple flowers
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12356668-n: perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes
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12371704-n: ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings
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12375294-n: widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia
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12378080-n: often spiny trees or shrubs of tropical Asia and Africa
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12386263-n: genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia
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12393269-n: tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax
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12396666-n: hemp: genus of coarse annuals native to central Asia and widely naturalized in north temperate regions; in some classifications included in the family Moraceae
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12397594-n: hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae
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12398526-n: ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage
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12403513-n: thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
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12407715-n: small fast-growing tree native to Asia; widely grown as shelterbelts and hedges
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12410205-n: an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia
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12423211-n: any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America
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12428076-n: lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia
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12429942-n: small genus of bitter-rooted herbs of eastern North America and Asia; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae
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12435777-n: a plant of eastern Asia; larger than Allium schoenoprasum
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12455950-n: any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous
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12478506-n: shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii
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12485811-n: evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia
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12489046-n: spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers
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12492106-n: deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia
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12492682-n: deciduous ornamental hybrid of southeastern Asia and Hawaii having racemes of flowers ranging in color from cream-colored to orange and red
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12505032-n: very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut
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12512095-n: large spiny shrub of eastern Asia having clusters of yellow flowers; often cultivated in shelterbelts and hedges
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12513426-n: deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States
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12517642-n: vine of tropical Asia having pinnate leaves and bright blue flowers with yellow centers
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12525513-n: any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons
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12528974-n: small to medium-sized thorny tree of tropical Asia and northern Australia having dense clusters of scarlet or crimson flowers and black seeds
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12530208-n: chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom
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12532168-n: erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
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12536040-n: deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye
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12542649-n: genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States
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12543455-n: an annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States
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12550408-n: the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing
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12565368-n: tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
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12566954-n: fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
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12569851-n: a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies
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12574470-n: annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry
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12584191-n: any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts
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12589286-n: large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia
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12591195-n: fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia
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12593826-n: a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
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12601805-n: annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
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12616996-n: very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe
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12631637-n: erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America
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12631932-n: hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America
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12637123-n: low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia
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12641180-n: small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit
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12645174-n: small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California
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12665857-n: common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia
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12666159-n: annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
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12671651-n: any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers; Asia and Mexico
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12673328-n: creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs
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12673588-n: similar to the twinflower of northern Europe and Asia
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12676940-n: a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia
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12679201-n: a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
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12682882-n: similar to the common teasel and similarly used; widespread in Europe and North Africa and western Asia; naturalized in United States
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12692521-n: small evergreen tree of Africa and Asia; leaves have a strong aromatic odor when bruised
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12692714-n: tree of eastern Africa and Asia yielding myrrh
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12693865-n: any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asia
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12700831-n: genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia
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12709901-n: shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
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12711596-n: a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
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12713664-n: small genus of aromatic deciduous trees of east Asia often having thick corky bark
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12718314-n: small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia
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12721122-n: perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers
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12730143-n: small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated
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12743352-n: tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium
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12745160-n: a genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia
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12747961-n: genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet
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12749456-n: bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings; brilliant red in autumn; northeastern Asia to central China
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12761123-n: tropical tree native to Asia bearing fleshy fruit
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12762583-n: deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron)
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12768177-n: deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia
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12770529-n: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
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12776774-n: deciduous shrub of eastern Asia bearing decorative bright blue fruit
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12783316-n: floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water fleas
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12790185-n: genus of ornamental mostly deciduous shrubs native to Asia and Central America; widespread in cultivation; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae
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12794135-n: plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America
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12795829-n: genus of perennial spring-blooming rhizomatous herbs with thick evergreen leaves; eastern Asia
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12800327-n: genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals
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12819141-n: biennial shrub of Europe and western Asia having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and dark reddish-purple flowers
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12821895-n: small biennial to perennial herb of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia having blue, purple or white flowers
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12824581-n: woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia
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12842887-n: perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America
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12843970-n: aromatic herb having heads of small pink or whitish flowers; widely distributed in United States, Europe and Asia
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12845413-n: perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon
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12860542-n: annual or perennial of tropical Asia having spikes of small white flowers and aromatic leaves; one of the most important culinary herbs; used in salads, casseroles, sauces and some liqueurs
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12868418-n: genus of shrubby often succulent herbs of tropical Africa and Asia; includes some plants often placed in genus Coleus
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12869248-n: large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia
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12890685-n: plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
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12895298-n: woolly-stemmed biennial arborescent shrub of tropical Africa and southern Asia having silvery-white prickly branches, clusters of blue or white flowers, and bright red berries resembling holly berries
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12896000-n: hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable
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12924623-n: large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics
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12927494-n: large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles
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12932532-n: chervil: of Europe, North Africa and Asia
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12933274-n: herb of Europe and temperate Asia
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12944095-n: sanicle of Europe and Asia having white to pale pink flowers
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12945177-n: stout white-flowered perennial found wild in shallow fresh water; northern United States and Asia
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12957924-n: water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four leaflets resembling clover leaves
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12960552-n: epiphytic fern with straplike usually twisted fronds of tropical Asia and Polynesia and America
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12961689-n: one species: terrestrial fern of southeastern Asia and Australia
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13170661-n: scandent thicket-forming ferns of Asia to western Pacific
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13173697-n: chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
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13173882-n: mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
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13174206-n: epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia
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13175324-n: epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea
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13175484-n: large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia
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13175682-n: giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia
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13175847-n: epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea
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13176523-n: tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia
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13177884-n: commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia
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13180875-n: spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent
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13185998-n: large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa; Asia; Australasia
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13188767-n: feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia
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13190060-n: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions
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13198914-n: beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes
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13201566-n: fern of tropical Asia having round buttonlike bulbils
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13202602-n: rock-inhabiting fern of Arctic and subarctic Europe to eastern Asia
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13203115-n: large scandent ferns of southeastern Asia
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13204276-n: tropical fern having leathery fronds resembling oleander; found from Asia to Polynesia
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13206438-n: terrestrial ferns of tropical Asia and Africa
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13209647-n: terrestrial ferns of Pacific islands and Asia
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13229018-n: medium to large terrestrial ferns of tropical Asia to Polynesia and Australia; naturalized in Americas
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13229747-n: terrestrial ferns of warm and tropical Asia and North America
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13236726-n: large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia
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13237188-n: succulent climber of southern Asia with umbels of pink and white star-shaped flowers
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14142326-n: transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia
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14175903-n: infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia
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14454311-n: infestation with flukes obtained from eating raw fish; common in eastern Asia
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15054607-n: powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener
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15239033-n: rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains