ordeal
— Noun
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~ a severe or trying experience
ordeal bean
— Noun
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~ dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft
open order
— Noun
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~ a military formation leaving enough space between ranks to allow an inspecting officer to pass
order Charadriiformes
— Noun
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~ large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life
order Euphausiacea
— Noun
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~ small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill
order Myxosporidia
— Noun
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~ an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia
order-Chenopodiales
— Noun
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~ corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae
order Galliformes
— Noun
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~ pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins
order Octopoda
— Noun
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~ octopuses and paper nautilus
order Anacanthini
— Noun
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~ at least partially equivalent to the order Gadiformes in some classifications
order Haemosporidia
— Noun
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~ an order in the subclass Telosporidia
order Falconiformes
— Noun
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~ chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe: falcons; hawks; eagles; ospreys; caracaras; vultures
order Cestida
— Noun
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~ ctenophore having short tentacles; one family
order Aristolochiales
— Noun
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~ order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary
order Alcyonaria
— Noun
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~ corals and sea anemones having eight branches
order Cilioflagellata
— Noun
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~ in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta
order Hypericales
— Noun
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~ a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae