kokoi venom
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~ a potent neurotoxin found in a particular frog
Karl Adolph Verner
— Navneord
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~ Danish philologist (1846-1896)
King James Version
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~ an English translation of the Bible published in 1611
kidney vetch
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~ perennial Eurasian herb having heads of red or yellow flowers and common in meadows and pastures; formerly used medicinally for kidney disorders
Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen
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~ Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
kudzu vine
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~ fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
kiwi vine
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~ climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
Kosteletzya virginica
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~ subshrub of southeastern United States to New York
Konrad von Gesner
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~ Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565)
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen
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~ German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
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~ German field marshal in World War II who directed the conquest of Poland and led the Ardennes counteroffensive (1875-1953)
Karl von Clausewitz
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~ Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831)
Karl von Frisch
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~ Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982)
Kurt Vonnegut
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~ United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922)
king vulture
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~ large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America; have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck
kraurosis vulvae
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~ kraurosis of the vulva; often a precancerous lesion
Kurt Waldheim
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~ Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)
Korean War
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~ a war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953
klammath weed
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~ yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands
Kurt Weill
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~ German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950)