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worker |
Noun
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a person who acts and gets things done |
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worker |
Noun
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a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) |
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worker bee |
Noun
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sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive |
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wriggler |
Noun
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larva of a mosquito |
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wriggler |
Noun
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one who can't stay still (especially a child) |
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warble fly |
Noun
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hairy bee-like fly whose larvae produce lumpy abscesses (warbles) under the skin of cattle |
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warble |
Noun
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a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly |
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warble |
Verb
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sing by changing register |
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warble |
Verb
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sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below |
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wasp |
Noun
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social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting |
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water bug |
Noun
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small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe |
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water bug |
Noun
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a true bug: large aquatic bug adapted to living in or on the surface of water |
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wood ant |
Noun
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reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
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white ant |
Noun
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whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood |
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walking stick |
Noun
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any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies |
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walking stick |
Noun
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a stick carried in the hand for support in walking |
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walkingstick |
Noun
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any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies |
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walking leaf |
Noun
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tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body |
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walking leaf |
Noun
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ferns having lanceolate fronds that root at the tip |
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wax insect |
Noun
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any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance |
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water scorpion |
Noun
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long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube |
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water boatman |
Noun
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carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs |
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water strider |
Noun
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long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water |
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water skater |
Noun
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long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water |
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wheel bug |
Noun
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large predatory North American bug that sucks the blood of other insects |
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woolly aphid |
Noun
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secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
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woolly plant louse |
Noun
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secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
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woolly apple aphid |
Noun
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primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees |
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woolly alder aphid |
Noun
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attacks alders |
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whitefly |
Noun
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minute insect that feeds on plant juices |
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woolly adelgid |
Noun
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an insect that feeds on hemlocks |
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webbing clothes moth |
Noun
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moth that forms a web in which it lives |
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webbing moth |
Noun
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moth that forms a web in which it lives |
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wax moth |
Noun
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moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs |
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white admiral |
Noun
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Eurasian butterfly with brown wings and white markings |
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white admiral |
Noun
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North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band |
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wood rabbit |
Noun
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common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside |
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webworm |
Noun
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several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed |
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webworm moth |
Noun
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a variety of moth that spins a web in which it lives |
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wild wilkworm |
Noun
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larva of a saturniid moth |
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woolly bear |
Noun
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caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs |
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woolly bear caterpillar |
Noun
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caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs |
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woolly bear moth |
Noun
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larva of moth of the family Arctiidae |
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wharf rat |
Noun
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brown rat that infests wharves |
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wharf rat |
Noun
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someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses |
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western grey squirrel |
Noun
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large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
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western gray squirrel |
Noun
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large grey squirrel of far western areas of United States |
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water vole |
Noun
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of western North America |
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water vole |
Noun
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common large Eurasian vole |
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white-tailed jackrabbit |
Noun
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largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States |