Antonine Wall
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~ a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain
American wall fern
— Noun
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~ chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
Alfred Russel Wallace
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~ English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
Antheropeas wallacei
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~ tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum
African walnut
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~ tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany
Atlantic walrus
— Noun
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~ a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters
Arab-Israeli War
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~ Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt
Arab-Israeli War
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~ tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East