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Military Type Sounds Like A Nut

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noun

• a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general

29%6 Structure similar to a nut but not a true nut
noun

• small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall

29%7 Group of woody plants characterized by their fruit being a nut or winged nut
noun

• an order of dicotyledonous trees of the subclass Hamamelidae

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