jumping plant louse
— Noun
– English
~ small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
Japanese plum
— Noun
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~ small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
Japanese plum
— Noun
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~ evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
Japanese plum
— Noun
– English
~ yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
Japanese poinsettia
— Noun
– English
~ showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru
jumping-off point
— Noun
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~ a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"
jugal point
— Noun
– English
~ the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson
— Noun
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~ French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)
jiggery-pokery
— Noun
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~ verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
James Polk
— Noun
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~ 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
James K. Polk
— Noun
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~ 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
James Knox Polk
— Noun
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~ 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
Jackson Pollock
— Noun
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~ United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
Juan Ponce de Leon
— Noun
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~ Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
— Noun
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~ French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)
jacket potato
— Noun
– English
~ a baked potato served with the jacket on
John Cowper Powys
— Noun
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~ British writer of novels about nature; one of three literary brothers (1872-1963)
James Prescott Joule
— Noun
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~ English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889)
Joseph Priestley
— Noun
– English
~ English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)