Baron Verulam
— Noun
– English
~ English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
1st Baron Verulam
— Noun
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~ English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
Illicium verum
— Noun
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~ small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative
Galium verum
— Noun
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~ common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia
Marcus Annius Verus
— Noun
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~ Emperor of Rome; nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antonius Pius; Stoic philosopher; the decline of the Roman Empire began under Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Pan troglodytes verus
— Noun
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~ masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa; distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees; possibly a distinct species
vervain
— Noun
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~ any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers
vervain family
— Noun
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~ family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees
vervain sage
— Noun
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~ Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States
vervet
— Noun
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~ South African monkey with black face and hands
vervet monkey
— Noun
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~ South African monkey with black face and hands
verwoerd
— Noun
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~ South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966)
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
— Noun
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~ South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966)
Hendrik Verwoerd
— Noun
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~ South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966)
Very-light
— Noun
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~ a colored flare fired from a Very pistol
very low density lipoprotein
— Noun
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~ large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides; VLDLs circulate through the blood giving up their triglycerides to fat and muscle tissue until the VLDL remnants are modified and converted into LDL
Very pistol
— Noun
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~ a pistol for firing Very-light flares