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Stalk :: Stalk (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids..

Bedunged :: Bedunged (imp. & p. p.) of Bedun.

Uniflorous :: Uniflorous (a.) Bearing one flower only; as, a uniflorous peduncle..

Solidungular :: Solidungular (a.) Solipedous.

A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English

Coprolite :: Coprolite (n.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Subadvocate :: Subaduncate (a.) Somewhat hooked or curved.

Terebratula :: Terebratula (n.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell..

Stercoration :: Stercorate (n.) Excrement; dung.

Coadunate :: Coadunate (a.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf..

Underhead :: Underhead (n.) A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead..

Incorrectness :: Incorrectness (n.) The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance.

Superacidulated :: Superabundant (a.) Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal..

Bate :: Bate (n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.

Dunbird :: Dunbird (n.) An American duck; the ruddy duck.

Mundungus :: Mundungus (n.) A stinking tobacco.

Scotist :: Scotist (n.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic..

Dun :: Dun (v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..

Dungeon :: Dungeon (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons..

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