Berberis canadensis
— Noun
– English
~ deciduous shrub of eastern North America whose leaves turn scarlet in autumn and having racemes of yellow flowers followed by ellipsoid glossy red berries
Branta canadensis
— Noun
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~ common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
birth canal
— Noun
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~ a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth
breast cancer
— Noun
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~ cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US
bog candles
— Noun
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~ orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
barley candy
— Noun
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~ a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
blight canker
— Noun
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~ a phase of fire blight in which cankers appear
birchbark canoe
— Noun
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~ a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
Bufo canorus
— Noun
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~ of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders
bel canto
— Noun
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~ a style of operatic singing
bathing cap
— Noun
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~ a tight-fitting cap that keeps hair dry while swimming
bishop's cap
— Noun
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~ any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
blasting cap
— Noun
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~ a small tube filled with detonating substances; used to detonate high explosives
bypass capacitor
— Noun
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~ a capacitor that provides low impedance over certain (high) frequencies
bean caper
— Noun
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~ perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers
Bartolomeo Alberto Capillari
— Noun
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~ Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the United States (1765-1846)
block capital
— Noun
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~ a plain hand-drawn letter