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ancestral
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adj 1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually
legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral
lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate";
"transmissible tradition" [syn: ancestral,
hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible]
2: of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
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austral
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adj 1: of the south or coming from the south; "sailed the
austral seas"
n 1: the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos
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cathedral
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adj 1: relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's
office or throne; "a cathedral church"
n 1: any large and important church
2: the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese
[syn: cathedral, duomo]
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central
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adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule";
"the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was
fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental
to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal,
central, fundamental, key, primal]
2: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area;
"a central position" [ant: peripheral]
n 1: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility
where lines from telephones can be connected together to
permit communication [syn: central, telephone exchange,
exchange]
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cerebral
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adj 1: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;
"a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama"
[syn: cerebral, intellectual] [ant: emotional]
2: of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral
hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"
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cloistral
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adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under
religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral,
conventual, monastic, monastical]
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conferral
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n 1: the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift [syn:
bestowal, bestowment, conferral, conferment]
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deferral
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n 1: a state of abeyance or suspended business [syn: deferral,
recess]
2: act of putting off to a future time [syn: postponement,
deferment, deferral]
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dextral
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adj 1: of or on the right; "a dextral gastropod shell with the
apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the
observer"; "a dextral flatfish lies with the right eye
uppermost" [ant: sinistral]
2: preferring to use right foot or hand or eye; "dextral
individuals exhibit dominance of the right hand and eye"
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menstrual
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adj 1: of or relating to menstruation or the menses; "menstrual
period" [syn: menstrual, catamenial]
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spandrel
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n 1: an approximately triangular surface area between two
adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them [syn:
spandrel, spandril]
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spectral
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adj 1: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors";
"spectral analysis"
2: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at
the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral
emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn:
apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal,
spectral, spiritual]
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tendril
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n 1: slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants
attach themselves to an object for support
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transferral
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n 1: the act of moving something from one location to another
[syn: transportation, transport, transfer,
transferral, conveyance]
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tumbril
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n 1: a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were
used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French
Revolution [syn: tumbrel, tumbril]
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urethral
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adj 1: of or relating to the urethra
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ventral
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adj 1: toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or
lower surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of
the human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in
position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the
hind limbs of a quadruped" [ant: dorsal]
2: nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism;
"the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface"
[syn: adaxial, ventral] [ant: abaxial, dorsal]
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vertebral
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adj 1: of or relating to or constituting vertebrae
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wastrel
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n 1: someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn:
wastrel, waster]
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april
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n 1: the month following March and preceding May [syn: April,
Apr]
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mandril
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n 1: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for
larger rotating parts [syn: spindle, mandrel,
mandril, arbor]
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mitral
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adj 1: of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve;
"mitral insufficiency"
2: relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics
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retral
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adj 1: moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or
contrary to a previous direction [syn: retral,
retrograde]
2: at or near or toward the posterior
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tetrahedral
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trihedral
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whimbrel
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umbral
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hemihedral
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holohedral
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rostral
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curvirostral
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