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cucumber
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n 1: a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest
times for its cylindrical green fruit [syn: cucumber,
cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus]
2: cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh
eaten as a vegetable; related to melons [syn: cucumber,
cuke]
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cumber
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v 1: hold back [syn: restrain, encumber, cumber,
constrain]
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disencumber
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v 1: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot
extricate myself from this task" [syn: extricate,
untangle, disentangle, disencumber]
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dismember
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v 1: separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered
the tourist"
2: divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our
funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
[syn: dismember, take apart, discerp]
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misremember
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v 1: remember incorrectly; "I misremembered the date"
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rumba
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n 1: syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba [syn:
rumba, rhumba]
2: a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with
Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and
violent movement [syn: rumba, rhumba]
3: a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance [syn: rumba,
rhumba]
v 1: dance the rhumba [syn: rhumba, rumba]
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samba
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n 1: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves
and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and
one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
[syn: obeche, obechi, arere, samba, Triplochiton
scleroxcylon]
2: music composed for dancing the samba
3: a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
4: a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
v 1: dance the samba
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slumber
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n 1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which
consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get
enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless
slumber" [syn: sleep, slumber]
2: a dormant or quiescent state
v 1: be asleep [syn: sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's,
catch some Z's] [ant: wake]
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sombre
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adj 1: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains";
"sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
[syn: drab, sober, somber, sombre]
2: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful
music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" [syn:
somber, sombre, melancholy]
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timber
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n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
material [syn: lumber, timber]
2: a beam made of wood
3: a post made of wood
4: land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest,
woodland, timberland, timber]
5: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice
or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was
rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell
summoned them to meet" [syn: timbre, timber, quality,
tone]
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timbre
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n 1: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a
voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her
soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the
broken bell summoned them to meet" [syn: timbre,
timber, quality, tone]
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umber
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adj 1: of the color of any of various natural brown earth
pigments
n 1: an earth pigment
2: a medium brown to dark-brown color [syn: chocolate,
coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber]
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rhumba
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n 1: syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba [syn:
rumba, rhumba]
2: a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with
Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and
violent movement [syn: rumba, rhumba]
3: a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance [syn: rumba,
rhumba]
v 1: dance the rhumba [syn: rhumba, rumba]
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december
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n 1: the last (12th) month of the year [syn: December, Dec]
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november
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n 1: the month following October and preceding December [syn:
November, Nov]
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september
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n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn:
September, Sep, Sept]
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humber
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n 1: an estuary in central northeastern England formed by the
Ouse River and the Trent River
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gamba
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n 1: viol that is the bass member of the viol family with
approximately the range of the cello [syn: viola da
gamba, gamba, bass viol]
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zomba
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n 1: a city in southern Malawi; was the capital until 1971
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sambar
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n 1: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
[syn: sambar, sambur, Cervus unicolor]
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liquidambar
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n 1: aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree [syn: sweet gum,
liquidambar]
2: any tree of the genus Liquidambar
3: sweet gum [syn: genus Liquidambar, Liquidambar]
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columba
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n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and
Caelum [syn: Columba, Dove]
2: type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons [syn:
Columba, genus Columba]
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sambur
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n 1: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
[syn: sambar, sambur, Cervus unicolor]
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tamber
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bemba
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pemba
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cochabamba
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kibumba
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kimber
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toowoomba
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