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  • 121May apple — noun 1. edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant • Hypernyms: ↑fruit • Part Holonyms: ↑mayapple, ↑wild mandrake, ↑Podophyllum peltatum 2. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit • Syn: ↑ …

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  • 122Sierra plum — noun shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit • Syn: ↑Pacific plum, ↑Prunus subcordata • Hypernyms: ↑plum, ↑plum tree * * * noun : a shrub or small tree (Prunus subcordata) of …

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  • 123sweet lemon — noun lemon tree having fruit with a somewhat insipid sweetish pulp • Syn: ↑sweet lime, ↑Citrus limetta • Hypernyms: ↑lemon, ↑lemon tree, ↑Citrus limon, ↑genus Citrus * * * noun …

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  • 124wallowish — adjective Etymology: obsolete English dialect wallow tasteless, insipid (from Middle English walhwe, walh) + English ish more at waugh : flat, insipid give a taste and edge … to that dull and wallowish flatness Philemon Holland …

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  • 125Air — ([^a]r), n. [OE. air, eir, F. air, L. a[ e]r, fr. Gr. ah r, air, mist, for a[digamma]hr, fr. root a[digamma] to blow, breathe, probably akin to E. wind. In sense 10 the French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr. the same Latin… …

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  • 126Air balloon — Air Air ([^a]r), n. [OE. air, eir, F. air, L. a[ e]r, fr. Gr. ah r, air, mist, for a[digamma]hr, fr. root a[digamma] to blow, breathe, probably akin to E. wind. In sense 10 the French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr. the… …

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  • 127Air bath — Air Air ([^a]r), n. [OE. air, eir, F. air, L. a[ e]r, fr. Gr. ah r, air, mist, for a[digamma]hr, fr. root a[digamma] to blow, breathe, probably akin to E. wind. In sense 10 the French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr. the… …

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  • 128Air castle — Air Air ([^a]r), n. [OE. air, eir, F. air, L. a[ e]r, fr. Gr. ah r, air, mist, for a[digamma]hr, fr. root a[digamma] to blow, breathe, probably akin to E. wind. In sense 10 the French has taking a meaning fr. It. aria atmosphere, air, fr. the… …

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