Vichy water
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～ sparkling mineral water from springs at Vichy, France or water similar to it
Virginia waterleaf
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～ showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States
vegetable wax
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～ a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms)
valley white oak
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～ tall graceful deciduous California oak having leathery leaves and slender pointed acorns
von Willebrand
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～ Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949)
von Willebrand's disease
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～ a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding
Vaughan Williams
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～ English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958)
varietal wine
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～ a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape
vernal witch hazel
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～ fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring
Virginian witch hazel
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～ common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen
violet wood sorrel
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～ perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers
Victoria Clafin Woodhull
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～ United States advocate of women's suffrage; in 1872 she was the first woman to run for the United States presidency (1838-1927)
virgin wool
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～ wool not used before; wool not processed or woven before
Virginia Woolf
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～ English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)
velvet worm
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～ any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
vinegar worm
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～ minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar
Van Wyck Brooks
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～ United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)
Viverra zibetha
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～ common civet of India and southeast Asia
varicella zoster virus
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～ the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
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～ United States physicist who invented the iconoscope (1889-1982)