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aurous
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adj 1: of or relating to or containing or derived from gold
[syn: aurous, auric]
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brontosaurus
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n 1: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North
America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur,
apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder
lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus]
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canorous
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adj 1: richly melodious [syn: canorous, songful]
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chorus
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n 1: any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus
of boos"
2: a group of people assembled to sing together
3: the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of
singers [syn: refrain, chorus]
4: a body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn:
chorus, chorus line]
5: a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in
unison) on the action in a classical Greek play [syn:
chorus, Greek chorus]
v 1: utter in unison; "`yes,' the children chorused"
2: sing in a choir [syn: choir, chorus]
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porous
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adj 1: able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our
digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less
porous"
2: full of pores or vessels or holes [syn: porous,
poriferous] [ant: nonporous]
3: allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely
unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn:
holey, porous]
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stegosaurus
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n 1: herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony
plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a
weapon [syn: stegosaur, stegosaurus, Stegosaur
stenops]
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thesaurus
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n 1: a book containing a classified list of synonyms [syn:
thesaurus, synonym finder]
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torus
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n 1: a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around
an axis that does not intersect the circle [syn: torus,
toroid]
2: commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column [syn:
torus, tore]
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tyrannosaurus
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n 1: large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth
with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather
than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North
America [syn: tyrannosaur, tyrannosaurus,
Tyrannosaurus rex]
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wardress
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n 1: a woman warder
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wondrous
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adv 1: (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is
superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously
slowly" [syn: wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously,
superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically,
marvelously]
adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as
intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film
was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous
collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation
about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn:
fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous,
marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous,
wonderful, wondrous]
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cyprus
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n 1: a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of
Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin [syn: Cyprus,
Republic of Cyprus]
2: an island in the eastern Mediterranean
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foundress
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n 1: a woman founder
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glabrous
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adj 1: having no hair or similar growth; smooth; "glabrous
stems"; "glabrous leaves"; "a glabrous scalp"
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horace
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n 1: Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry
(65-8 BC)
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morris
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n 1: United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902) [syn:
Morris, Esther Morris, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack
Morris]
2: English poet and craftsman (1834-1896) [syn: Morris,
William Morris]
3: leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration
of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army
(1734-1806) [syn: Morris, Robert Morris]
4: United States statesman who led the committee that produced
the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816)
[syn: Morris, Gouverneur Morris]
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slumbrous
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adj 1: quiet and tranquil; "a slumberous June morning" [syn:
slumberous, slumbrous]
2: inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or
slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a
somnolent effect" [syn: slumberous, slumbery,
slumbrous, somnolent]
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taurus
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n 1: Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist
father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born
in 1949) [syn: Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres
Martinez, Taurus, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon,
Michael Assat]
2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
[syn: Taurus, Bull]
3: a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near
Orion; between Aries and Gemini
4: the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about April 20 to May 20 [syn: Taurus, Taurus the Bull,
Bull]
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epicurus
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n 1: Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random
combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good
(341-270 BC)
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varus
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n 1: a deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an
abnormal degree [ant: valgus]
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horus
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n 1: Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon; the son of
Osiris and Isis
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sorus
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n 1: a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi
2: cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond
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centaurus
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n 1: a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near
the Southern Cross [syn: Centaurus, Centaur]
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jointress
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nacrous
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scirrhous
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scirrhus
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sclerous
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dolores
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scarus
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maquiladoras
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