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identify
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verb (identifies, identifying, identified)
  1. to establish the identity of someone or something
  2. (biology) to establish the taxonomic classification of an organism
  3. to equate two or more things
  4. to associate oneself with some group
imbricate
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verb (imbricat, ing) (transitive and intransitive)
  1. to overlap in a regular pattern
adjective
  1. having regular overlapping edges; intertwined
immaculate
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adjective
  1. having no stain or blemish, spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more . — Jordan Denham?
Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II, V-iii.
immersed
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verb
  1. (past of, immerse)
intergradation
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noun
  1. a gradual merging of two things
investment
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noun
  1. A temporary donation of money to a cause in expectation of making a profit.
involucre
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noun
  1. (botany) Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence.
involute
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noun
  1. (mathematics) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.
adjective
  1. difficult to understand, or complicated
  2. (context, botany, of a leaf or petal) having the edges rolled inwards
  3. (context, biology, of some shells) having a complex pattern of coils
isomorphic
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adjective
  1. (biology) having a similar structure to something that is not related genetically
  2. (mathematics) related by an isomorphism

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