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cuss
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n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter,
cuss, pesterer, gadfly]
2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn:
chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent,
blighter, cuss, bloke]
3: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger;
"expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word,
expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss]
v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were
cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss,
blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
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mucous
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adj 1: of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus;
"mucous tissue"; "mucous glands of the intestine" [syn:
mucous, mucose]
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mucus
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n 1: protective secretion of the mucus membranes; in the gut it
lubricates the passage of food and protects the epithelial
cells; in the nose and throat and lungs it can make it
difficult for bacteria to penetrate the body through the
epithelium [syn: mucus, mucous secretion]
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coccus
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n 1: any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria [syn: coccus,
cocci]
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diplococcus
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n 1: Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs
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pneumococcus
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n 1: bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans [syn:
pneumococcus, Diplococcus pneumoniae]
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ascus
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n 1: saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through
sexual reproduction of ascomycetes
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damascus
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n 1: an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and
present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the
New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul)
underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus
[syn: Dimash, Damascus, capital of Syria]
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orcus
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n 1: god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto [syn:
Dis, Orcus]
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autofocus
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n 1: an optical device for focussing a camera or other
instrument automatically
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copernicus
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n 1: Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the
solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) [syn:
Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik]
2: a conspicuous crater on the Moon
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fucus
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n 1: any member of the genus Fucus
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lucas
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n 1: United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)
[syn: Lucas, George Lucas]
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caducous
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adj 1: shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians
have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy"
[syn: caducous, shed] [ant: lasting, persistent]
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diplodocus
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n 1: a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of
late Jurassic in western North America
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leviticus
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n 1: the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law
and ritual precedents [syn: Leviticus, Book of
Leviticus]
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cus
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marcus
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cercus
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dorcas
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trochus
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caicos
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verrucous
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spartacus
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telemachus
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autolycus
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distichous
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antiochus
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callimachus
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monostichous
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ulotrichous
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