Arisarum vulgare
— Noun
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~ tuberous perennial having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; Mediterranean; Canaries; Azores
Aquilegia vulgaris
— Noun
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~ common European columbine having variously colored (white or blue to purple or red) short-spurred flowers; naturalized in United States
Alnus vulgaris
— Noun
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~ medium-sized tree with brown-black bark and woody fruiting catkins; leaves are hairy beneath
Artemisia vulgaris
— Noun
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~ European tufted aromatic perennial herb having hairy red or purple stems and dark green leaves downy white below and red-brown florets
acne vulgaris
— Noun
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~ the most common form of acne; usually affects people from puberty to young adulthood
Anthyllis vulneraria
— Noun
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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
Albula vulpes
— Noun
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~ slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
Alopius vulpinus
— Noun
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~ large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
Andrew W. Mellon
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~ United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
A. E. W. Mason
— Noun
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~ English writer (1865-1948)
Andrzej Wajda
— Noun
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~ Polish filmmaker (born in 1929)
al Sunna Wal Jamma
— Noun
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~ a resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks
Antonine Wall
— Noun
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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