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• the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic
Example sentence • The recipe calls for a pinch of asafoetida to add flavor to the dish.
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• any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida
Example sentence • An overgrowth of candida can lead to health problems.
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• a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators
Example sentence • I watched a corrida at the bullring in Madrid.
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• the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic
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• the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in
Example sentence • The gravida was excited to feel her baby kick for the first time.
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Example sentence • The cnida helps the sea anemone capture prey.
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• (in Latin-American contexts) darling
Example sentence • My querida is coming to visit me this weekend.
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• large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances
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• a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
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Example sentence • The doctor explained to the multigravida that she would be more likely to have a fast labor.
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• French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004)
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• the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan
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• (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
Example sentence • The primigravida attended her first prenatal check-up today.
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Example sentence • I added a pinch of assafetida to the curry for flavor.
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Example sentence • The smell of assafoetida can be quite overpowering.
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Example sentence • The coloquintida is a type of sour and bitter fruit used for medicinal purposes.
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Example sentence • He recited a beautiful qasida at the poetry competition.
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• a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
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• a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft
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• the animal order including amoebas
Example sentence • The amoebida species can be found in various aquatic environments.
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• shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed
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• oldest known reptiles; turtles and extinct Permian forms
Example sentence • The anapsida skull pattern is characterized by the absence of temporal openings.
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• extinct order of jawless vertebrates
Example sentence • The anaspida had a distinctive shield-like head armor.
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• segmented worms: earthworms; lugworms; leeches
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• hornworts: in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida
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• bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
Example sentence • The aralia hispida plant has spiky leaves.
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• silky-leaved aromatic perennial of dry northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere; has tawny florets
Example sentence • The artemisia frigida plant is known for its strong aromatic odor.
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• small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
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• any of numerous hybrid begonias having tuberous roots and variously colored flowers
Example sentence • The begonia tuberhybrida is often cultivated for its beautiful flowers.
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• a city in northern Algeria at the foot of the Atlas Mountains to the southwest of Algiers
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• widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh
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• true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
Example sentence • The bryopsida reproduces by spores.
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• an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it
Example sentence • The artist used a camera lucida to trace the outlines of the subject.
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• capital of the state of Florida; located in northern Florida
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• extinct group of armored fish-like vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear
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• ctenophore having short tentacles; one family
Example sentence • The cestida is a transparent marine animal that moves by beating rows of cilia or comb-like structures.
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• bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
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• hornworts: in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida
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• a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wings
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• true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
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• cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period; most are substantial trees; includes the classes Pinopsida (subdivision Pinophytina) and Ginkgopsida (subdivision Ginkgophytina) and Taxopsida (subdivision Taxophytina) which in turn include the surviving orders Coniferales and Taxales (yews) and sometimes Ginkgoales as well as extinct orders such as Cordaitales (of the Carboniferous and Permian)
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• palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta)
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• ginkgos: in some systems classified as a class and in others as a subdivision; used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta
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• gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta)
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• liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales
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