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stentor |
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a speaker with an unusually loud voice |
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streptobacillus |
Noun
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any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria |
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seaweed |
Noun
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plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae |
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salmonella |
Noun
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rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria |
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seagrass |
Noun
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any of various seaweeds that grow underwater in shallow beds |
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sea wrack |
Noun
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growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp |
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sea wrack |
Noun
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submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts |
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shigella |
Noun
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rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria |
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shiga bacillus |
Noun
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a bacillus that causes dysentery |
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slime bacteria |
Noun
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bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime |
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silversides |
Noun
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the common North American shiner |
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silversides |
Noun
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small fishes having a silver stripe along each side |
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sea-lettuce family |
Noun
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thin flat or tubular green algae |
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sea lettuce |
Noun
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seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds |
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sarcosporidian |
Noun
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parasite of the muscles of vertebrates |
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sarcocystidean |
Noun
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parasite of the muscles of vertebrates |
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sarcocystieian |
Noun
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parasite of the muscles of vertebrates |
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spirogyra |
Noun
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freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands |
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superorder Malacopterygii |
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an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays |
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soft-finned fish |
Noun
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any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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stonewort |
Noun
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any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches |
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serrated wrack |
Noun
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brown algae seaweed with serrated edges |
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sporozoan |
Noun
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parasitic spore-forming protozoan |
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sporozoite |
Noun
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one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle |
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sea moss |
Noun
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any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen) |
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sea moss |
Noun
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sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles |
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sargassum |
Noun
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brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea |
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sargasso |
Noun
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brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea |
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shiner |
Noun
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any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis |
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shiner |
Noun
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important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean |
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shiner |
Noun
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something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) |
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shiner |
Noun
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a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye |
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swordtail |
Noun
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freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail |
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silkworm seed |
Noun
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eggs of a silkworm |
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seahorse |
Noun
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small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails |
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seahorse |
Noun
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either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber |
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sea horse |
Noun
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small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails |
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sea horse |
Noun
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either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber |
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snipefish |
Noun
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small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth |
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shrimpfish |
Noun
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slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates |
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shrimp-fish |
Noun
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slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates |
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silverfish |
Noun
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a silvery variety of Carassius auratus |
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silverfish |
Noun
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silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing |
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squirrelfish |
Noun
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very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs |
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squirrelfish |
Noun
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similar to sea bream |
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soldierfish |
Noun
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the larger squirrelfishes |
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soldier-fish |
Noun
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the larger squirrelfishes |
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sucker |
Noun
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mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction |
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sucker |
Noun
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an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction |
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sucker |
Noun
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hard candy on a stick |