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bottom lurkers |
Noun
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a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water |
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beast of burden |
Noun
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an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work |
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by-catch |
Noun
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unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species |
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bycatch |
Noun
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unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species |
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bear cub |
Noun
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a young bear |
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bacteriophage |
Noun
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a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria |
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bacillus |
Noun
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aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium |
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bacteria order |
Noun
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an order of bacteria |
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bacteria family |
Noun
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a family of bacteria |
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bacteria genus |
Noun
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a genus of bacteria |
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bacteria species |
Noun
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a species of bacteria |
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botulinus |
Noun
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anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism |
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botulinum |
Noun
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anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism |
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bunyavirus |
Noun
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an animal virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae |
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blue-green algae |
Noun
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predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll |
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bacteria |
Noun
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(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission |
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bacterium |
Noun
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(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission |
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brown algae |
Noun
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algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
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borrelia |
Noun
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cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever |
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bug |
Noun
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a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium) |
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bug |
Noun
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general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate |
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bug |
Noun
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insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base |
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bug |
Noun
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a small hidden microphone |
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bug |
Noun
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a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine |
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bug |
Verb
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to annoy persistently |
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bug |
Verb
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to tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information |
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bacteriochlorophyll |
Noun
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a substance in photosensitive bacteria that is related to but different from chlorophyll of higher plants |
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bladderwrack |
Noun
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a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure |
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bladderwrack |
Noun
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similar to and found with black rockweed |
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black rockweed |
Noun
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a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure |
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bladder fucus |
Noun
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a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure |
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bellows fish |
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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blastocoel |
Noun
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the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
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blastocoele |
Noun
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the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
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blastocele |
Noun
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the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
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blastoderm |
Noun
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a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
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blastodisc |
Noun
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a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
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blastomere |
Noun
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any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg |
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buffalo fish |
Noun
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any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley |
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buffalofish |
Noun
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any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley |
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buffalofish |
Noun
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large carp-like North American fish |
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black buffalo |
Noun
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fish of the lower Mississippi |
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boarfish |
Noun
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fish with a projecting snout |
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boarfish |
Noun
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fish with large eyes and long snouts |
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blastula |
Noun
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early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum |
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blastosphere |
Noun
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early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum |
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blastocyst |
Noun
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the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred |
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blastodermic vessicle |
Noun
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the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred |
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blastopore |
Noun
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the opening into the archenteron |
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bull shark |
Noun
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a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide |