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noun
- A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
- An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
verb
- To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
adjective
- Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
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noun
- Plural of den.
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noun - The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing, or a similar feature on any other animal.
- The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person.
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to the right side
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noun (pl=digeneses)
- (biology) The alternation of sexual and asexual methods of reproduction.
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noun
- A digitigrade animal, such as a dog or a cat, walks on their toes.
adjective
- (context, of an animal) walking, Walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
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noun - (biology) The occurrence within a plant of two distinct forms of any part.
- (biology) The occurrence in an animal species of two distinct types of individual.
- (geology) A property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms.
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verb
- to spread apart; to diverge, to branch off
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noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- (arithmetic) (uncountable) The process of divide, dividing a number by another.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
- A large military unit, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- A section of a large company.
- (context, biology, taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plant, plants or fungus, fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank
- Magnolias belong to the Magnoliophyta.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
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noun
- A fin located on the backs of fish and some marine mammals.
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noun (es, -)
- (countable) A garment; an item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which covers the upper part of the body as well as below the waist.
- Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses'.''
- (uncountable) apparel, Apparel, clothing.
verb (dress, es)
- (transitive) To clothe something; to put clothes on something.
- (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
- (transitive) To prepare the surface of a material (usually stone or lumber).
- To bandage a wound.
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- (transitive) To prepare food for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
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noun (dungs, -)
- Manure; animal excrement.
- (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
- Quotations
- Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread upon your faces, even the of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. — Malichi 2:3.
- 1605: Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool... — William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene IV, line 129.
- 1882: The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 496.
verb
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- (transitive) (Calico Printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To void excrement.
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