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ASGOODAS |
Very nearly |
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ALLBUT |
Very nearly |
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ALMOST |
Very Nearly |
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MYRCIA |
A large genus of tropical American trees and shrubs, nearly
related to the true myrtles (Myrtus), from which they differ in having
very few seeds in each berry. |
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PYTHON |
Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and
allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the
boas. Called also rock snake. |
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MILLEPORE |
Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface
nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells.
The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia. |
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FLINT |
...color
usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal
fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with ste... |
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PEELE |
...a
capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The
horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very
sh... |
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SYNONYM |
...ame
language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words
which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may oft... |
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ACACIA |
A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species
are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed
leaf stalks, ... |
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GRAMME |
The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to
be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of
one cubic c... |
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OSTRICH |
...thio
camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very
strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck,
ne... |
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TATOUAY |
...tute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are
very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo. ... |
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FOR |
...nects less closely, and is
sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by
what has gone before. ... |
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TOUCAN |
... of
tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied
genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light
a... |
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METRE |
...s, the
standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and
measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth
... |
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TIGER |
A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of
Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or
rufous yellow, ... |
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SEA ELEPHANT |
A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the
Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length
of thirty feet, and ... |
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MARSUPIALIA |
...ordinary mammals in having the
corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their
young born while very immature. The female ... |
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BOOMERANG |
A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of
Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of
hard wood, from twe... |
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OAK |
... Asia, and the other parts of
North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South
America and Africa. Many of the oaks form fo... |