Konrad von Gesner
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~ Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565)
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen
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~ German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
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~ German field marshal in World War II who directed the conquest of Poland and led the Ardennes counteroffensive (1875-1953)
Karl von Clausewitz
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~ Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831)
Karl von Frisch
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~ Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982)
Kurt Vonnegut
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~ United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922)
king vulture
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~ large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America; have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck
kraurosis vulvae
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~ kraurosis of the vulva; often a precancerous lesion
Kurt Waldheim
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~ Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)
Korean War
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~ a war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953
klammath weed
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~ yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands
Kurt Weill
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~ German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950)
Karl Wernicke
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~ German neurologist best known for his studies of aphasia (1848-1905)
Key West
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~ a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico
killer whale
— Noun
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~ predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas