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LENGTHENING |
Expanding |
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INCREASING |
Expanding |
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DUMDUM |
Expanding bullet |
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BROADENING |
Expanding (horizons) |
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DIAPHRAGM |
Lung-expanding muscle |
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MUSHROOMING |
Expanding rapidly |
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ELABORATING |
Expanding on topic |
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INTUMESCENT |
Swelling up; expanding. |
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FLORESCENT |
Expanding into flowers; blossoming. |
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BELL-MOUTHED |
Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. |
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DILATOR |
An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral
dilator. |
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THIMBLE |
A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in
England. |
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EXPANSION |
The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of
being expanded; dilation; enlargement. |
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CENTRIFUGAL |
Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base,
as a flower cluster. |
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CENTRIPETAL |
Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and
proceeding in order towards the summit. |
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EXPANDER |
Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for
stretching open or expanding a tube, etc. |
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WHEEL-SHAPED |
Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with
scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla. |
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DEVELOPMENT |
The act or process of changing or expanding an
expression into another of equivalent value or meaning. |
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FERRULE |
A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it
tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth. |
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SEA TRUMPET |
A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a
hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet
long. |
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FUNNELFORM |
Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is,
expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some
flowers; infundibuliform. |
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HYPOCRATERIMORPHOUS |
Salver-shaped; having a slender tube,
expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in
the blossom of the phlox and the lilac. |
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LITHOPHYSE |
A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers,
observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed
to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name. |
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HOOP |
A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone,
metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of
ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural. |
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CORYMB |
A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own
footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the
outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn. |