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: a long flat-bottomed light sled made usually of thin boards curved up at one end with usually low handrails at the sides
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: a downward course or a sharp decline
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chiefly Southern & Midland : stocking cap
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: any of a genus (Diospyros) of trees of the ebony family with hard fine wood, oblong leaves, and small bell-shaped flowers; especially : an eastern United States tree (D. virginiana) or a Japanese tree (D. kaki)
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: the usually orange several-seeded globular berry of a persimmon that is edible when fully ripe but usually extremely astringent when unripe
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: a bitter crystalline alkaloid C20H24N2O2 from cinchona bark used in medicine
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: a salt of quinine used especially as an antipyretic, antimalarial, and bitter tonic
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: either of two arums (Peltandra virginica and Orontium aquaticum) of the United States with rootstocks used as food by American Indians
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: the large edible sclerotium of a subterranean fungus (Poria cocos)
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: a smoked and usually dried jalapeño pepper
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: a loose often long dress having bright colors and patterns and adapted from the dresses originally distributed by missionaries to the native women of Hawaii
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: any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies; broadly : pirate
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: lima or shell beans and kernels of green corn cooked together
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: a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy; also : a group of people united to promote an agreed-upon cause
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: any of a family (Didelphidae) of American marsupials that usually have a pointed snout and prehensile tail; especially : a common omnivorous largely nocturnal mammal (Didelphis virginiana) of North America that has grayish to blackish fur with white on the cheeks and is an expert climber
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: any of several Australian phalangers
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: the dried rhizome and roots of either of two tropical American plants (Cephaelis acuminata and C. ipecacuanha) of the madder family used especially as a source of emetine; also : either of these plants
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: an emetic and expectorant drug that contains emetine and is prepared from ipecac especially as a syrup for use in treating accidental poisoning
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: any of a family (Galbulidae) of usually iridescent green or bronze insectivorous birds of tropical American forests having a long sharp bill
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