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Verbena :: Verbena (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

Ibex :: Ibex (n.) One of several species of wild goats having very large, recurved horns, transversely ridged in front; -- called also steinbok..

Quinine :: Quinine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc..

Ducat :: Ducat (n.) A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke..

Plurilocular :: Plurilocular (a.) Having several cells or locul.

Centralism :: Centralism (n.) The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..

Snowberry :: Snowberry (n.) A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America..

Robin :: Robin (n.) Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (Petroica mullticolor)..

Rockfish :: Rockfish (n.) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.

Loosestrife :: Loosestrife (n.) The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color..

Fusel Oil :: Fusel oil () A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol..

Thrift :: Thrift (n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Indigo :: Indigo (n.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican..

Severality :: Severality (n.) Each particular taken singly; distinction.

Period :: Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..

Paraffine :: Paraffine (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or

Shrew :: Shrew (a.) Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals..

Cardamom :: Cardamom (n.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum..

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