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marabou |
Noun
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the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments |
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marabou |
Noun
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large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork |
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masked shrew |
Noun
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commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America |
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marsupial mole |
Noun
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small burrowing Australian marsupial that resembles a mole |
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mane |
Noun
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long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck |
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mane |
Noun
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growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being |
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mole |
Noun
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small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet |
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mole |
Noun
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a protective structure of stone or concrete |
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mole |
Noun
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a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin |
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mole |
Noun
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spicy sauce often containing chocolate |
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mole |
Noun
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a spy who works against enemy espionage |
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mole |
Noun
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the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams |
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man-of-war |
Noun
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large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles |
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man-of-war |
Noun
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a warship intended for combat |
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madrepore |
Noun
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corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands |
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madriporian coral |
Noun
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corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands |
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metazoan |
Noun
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any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa |
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medusa |
Noun
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one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate |
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medusan |
Noun
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one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate |
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money cowrie |
Noun
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cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa |
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moon shell |
Noun
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marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires |
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moonshell |
Noun
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marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires |
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medicinal leech |
Noun
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large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting |
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mollusk family |
Noun
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a family of mollusks |
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mollusk genus |
Noun
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a genus of mollusks |
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mollusk |
Noun
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invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
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mollusc |
Noun
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invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
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marine mussel |
Noun
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marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell |
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mytilid |
Noun
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marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell |
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malacostracan crustacean |
Noun
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a major subclass of crustaceans |
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mantis shrimp |
Noun
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tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages |
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mantis crab |
Noun
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tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages |
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mantis prawn |
Noun
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a kind of mantis shrimp |
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mussel |
Noun
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marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. |
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mussel |
Noun
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black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine |
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marsh hen |
Noun
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any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens |
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marsh hen |
Noun
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a coot found in North America |
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marabout |
Noun
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large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork |
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marabou stork |
Noun
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large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork |
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mud hen |
Noun
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a coot found in North America |
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mussel shrimp |
Noun
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tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell |
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maori hen |
Noun
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flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting |
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mew |
Noun
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the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America |
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mew |
Noun
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the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) |
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mew |
Verb
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cry like a cat |
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mew |
Verb
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utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls |
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mew gull |
Noun
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the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America |
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mollymawk |
Noun
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large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings |
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minke whale |
Noun
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small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
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man-of-war bird |
Noun
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long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail |