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worm |
Noun
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a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect |
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worm |
Verb
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to move in a twisting or contorted motion, especially when struggling |
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woodworm |
Noun
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a larva of a woodborer |
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woodborer |
Noun
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any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood |
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wheatworm |
Noun
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small roundworm parasitic on wheat |
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wheat eel |
Noun
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small roundworm parasitic on wheat |
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wheat eelworm |
Noun
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small roundworm parasitic on wheat |
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wiggler |
Noun
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terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil |
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wiggler |
Noun
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larva of a mosquito |
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wiggler |
Noun
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one who can't stay still, especially a child |
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whelk |
Noun
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large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell |
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whelk |
Noun
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large marine snail much used as food in Europe |
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whelk |
Verb
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gather whelk |
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winkle |
Noun
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edible marine gastropod |
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winkle |
Noun
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small edible marine snail |
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winkle |
Verb
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remove or displace from a position |
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winkle |
Verb
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gleam or glow intermittently |
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winkle |
Verb
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emit or reflect light in a flickering manner |
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window oyster |
Noun
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marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell |
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windowpane oyster |
Noun
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marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell |
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woodlouse |
Noun
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any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body |
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white stork |
Noun
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the common stork of Europe |
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whale louse |
Noun
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amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans |
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water 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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water hen |
Noun
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a coot found in North America |
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water flea |
Noun
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minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell |
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water flea |
Noun
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minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming |
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wood ibis |
Noun
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an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill |
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wood ibis |
Noun
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any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
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wood stork |
Noun
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an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill |
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wood stork |
Noun
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any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
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whooping crane |
Noun
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rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call |
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weka |
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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wading bird |
Noun
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any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food |
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wader |
Noun
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any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food |
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wood 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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willet |
Noun
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large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts |
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woodcock |
Noun
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game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe |
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woodcock snipe |
Noun
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small long-billed woodcock |
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woodcock snipe |
Noun
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Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe |
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whole snipe |
Noun
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common snipe of Eurasia and Africa |
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white-headed stilt |
Noun
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stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
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wandering albatross |
Noun
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very large albatross |
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white pelican |
Noun
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large American pelican |
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white-chinned petrel |
Noun
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large black petrel of southern seas having a white mark on the chin |
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water turkey |
Noun
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blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions |
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whale |
Noun
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any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
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whale |
Noun
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a very large person |
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whale |
Verb
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hunt for whales |
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whalebone whale |
Noun
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whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |