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• an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay
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• neuralgia along the sciatic nerve
Example sentence • I have been suffering from sciatica for the past few months.
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• A genre of American music from the 1950s, characterized by an evocative musical focus on the islands of the South Pacific.
Example sentence • I love collecting exotica from different countries.
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• an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
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• any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions
Example sentence • The hepatica is a perennial herb that belongs to the Buttercup family.
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• an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
Example sentence • She wore a tunica with vibrant colors to the summer party.
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• a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
Example sentence • The artist used the vesica shape in their painting.
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• A species of coffee plant, Coffea arabica, native to Ethiopia
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• Any of a wide range of electronic music genres.
Example sentence • She enjoys listening to electronica music while studying.
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• An Asian plant (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), related to wormwood, which has been used since ancient times as a vermifuge due to its santonin content.
Example sentence • The dried flowerheads of santonica are used in traditional medicine.
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• Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
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Example sentence • Some species of peritricha are found in freshwater environments.
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• A small sac within the reproductive tract of some female invertebrates, such as insects, which stores sperm until it is used to fertilize the ova.
Example sentence • The spermatheca is an organ found in female insects that stores and protects sperm.
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• A Latin-American girl; a Latina.
Example sentence • La chica está corriendo en el parque.
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• The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
Example sentence • The traveler prepared a bag of viatica before embarking on the journey.
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• an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
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• a typeface in which characters have no serifs
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• the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
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• similar to blue flag; the eastern United States
Example sentence • The iris virginica has beautiful purple flowers.
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• perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
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• North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves
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• perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals
Example sentence • The silene virginica attracts hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden.
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• a nettle yielding fiber resembling flax
Example sentence • My grandmother uses urtica leaves to treat her arthritis.
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Example sentence • The physharmonica is a musical instrument that was invented in the 19th century.
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• type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas
Example sentence • The carica tree produces delicious fruits.
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• Old World tropical vine
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• type genus of Myristicaceae; tropical Asian evergreen trees with small white or yellow flowers followed by fleshy fruits
Example sentence • I use ground myristica in my holiday baking.
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• a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
Example sentence • The oceanica climate is characterized by warm temperatures and high humidity.
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• coextensive with the family Punicaceae
Example sentence • The punica fruit is known for its tart flavor.
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• plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions
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• lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America
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• Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long grey-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered
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• marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves
Example sentence • The alisma plantago-aquatica is commonly found in Europe and Asia.
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• vigorous evergreen climbing plant of South America having glossy leathery foliage and golden yellow flowers
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• an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers
Example sentence • The amorpha californica plant is native to California.
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• stoloniferous herb of southwestern United States and Mexico having a pungent rootstock and small spicate flowers with white bracts suggesting an anemone
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• low ashy-grey California shrub
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• one of three arteries supplying the anterior walls of the abdomen
Example sentence • The arteria epigastrica is a branch of the superior epigastric artery.
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• the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach
Example sentence • The arteria gastrica supplies blood to the lesser curvature of the stomach.
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• tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics
Example sentence • The garden had a beautiful asclepias curassavica plant.
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• large heavy-bodied brilliantly marked and extremely venomous west African viper
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• the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast
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• mint-scented perennial of central and southern Europe
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• European perennial bellflower that grows in clumps with spreading stems and blue or white flowers
Example sentence • The campanula carpatica has blue or white bell-shaped flowers.
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• city in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa
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