tss
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~ syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons
Tsuga mertensiana
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~ large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock
Tsuga canadensis
— Noun
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~ common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
Tsuga heterophylla
— Noun
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~ tall evergreen of western North America; commercially important timber tree
Tsuga caroliniana
— Noun
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~ medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales
tsunami
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~ a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption; "a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes"
Tsung Dao Lee
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~ United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
tsuris
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~ (Yiddish) aggravating trouble; "the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to"
tsushima
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~ a naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War (1905); the Japanese fleet defeated the Russian fleet in the Korean Strait