Joseph Oliver
— Noun
– English
~ United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
Java olives
— Noun
– English
~ large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food
jump on
— Verb
– English
~ get up on the back of; "mount a horse"
juvenile-onset diabetes
— Noun
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~ severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
Jan Hendrix Oort
— Noun
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~ Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992)
jewels-of-opar
— Noun
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~ erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere
Jaffa orange
— Noun
– English
~ sweet almost seedless orange of Israel
jewel orchid
— Noun
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~ any of several delicate Asiatic orchids grown especially for their velvety leaves with metallic white or gold veining
jumping orchid
— Noun
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~ orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected
Jesuit order
— Noun
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~ a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship
Jose Clemente Orozco
— Noun
– English
~ Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)
Jose Orozco
— Noun
– English
~ Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)