cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shun
whitelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitelists
Etymology: From white + list.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted.
Synonyms: allowlist
Hyponyms: fair list
safelist
whitelist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whitelists
form: whitelisting
form: whitelisted
form: whitelisted
Etymology: From white + list.
Senses: examples: text: The email program allows you to whitelist email from known sources.
glosses: To place on a whitelist; to mark or note a person or entity as trustworthy or acceptable.
meristem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meristems
Etymology: From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) + στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891).
Senses: examples: text: By looking back at a past populated by beings of grotesque difference, humans could place themselves at the apical meristem—the growing tip—of the future.
ref: 2020, Janet Chernela, quotee, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: cambium
glosses: The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
wikipedia: Carl Nägeli
Derived terms: adaxial meristem
apical meristem
en
intercalary meristem
lateral meristem
meristematic
meristematically
meristemic
meristemless
meristemoid
plate meristem
promeristem
C19
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-19
Senses: glosses: The nineteenth century; the 1800s.
examples: text: C19 food supply disruptions […] C19 travel restrictions
ref: 2020, Derek D. Headey, Sophie Goudet, et al., Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Telephone survey evidence from mothers in rural and urban Myanmar, page 13:
text: They are averaging less than 10 deaths with (not from) C19 a day […]
ref: 2021 January 28, "16 states where COVID-19 is spreading fastest, slowest: Jan. 28", Beckers Hospital Review
text: Median follow-up time from C19 diagnosis to last follow-up was 4.8 months […]
ref: 2021, Justin Shaya et al., Long-term outcomes of cancer patients infected with COVID-19: Proceedings of the AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer:
glosses: COVID-19.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a grouping of stars in the Milky Way galaxy halo that are 2,500 times lower than the sun.
water under the bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They agreed that their old disputes were water under the bridge and decided to make a fresh start.
text: Ilsa: It's been a long time.
Sam: Yes, ma'am. A lot of water under the bridge.
ref: 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca:
text: Lot of water under the bridge; lot of other stuff, too / Don’t get up, gentlemen, I’m only passing through
ref: 2000, Bob Dylan, “Things Have Changed”:
synonyms: water over the dam
glosses: Something in the past that cannot be controlled or undone, but must be accepted, forgiven, or forgotten.
Related terms: ancient history
bygones
cry over spilt milk
here we are
irreversibility
what's done is done
down-to-earth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaʊn.ɾəˈɚθ/
Forms: form: down to earth
Senses: examples: text: He had a down-to-earth attitude that translated into a straightforward, but effective strategy.
glosses: Practical; realistic; pragmatic.
examples: text: "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to devote any of tonight's news to evil monkey shenanigans unless you can find something more down to earth to focus your report on."
ref: 2009 January 20, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009:
text: Relatable is to TikTok what aspirational was to Instagram—its most salient, sought-after quality. It signals a down-to-earth, democratic appeal.
ref: 2020 July 20, Carina Chocano, “Not So Bored in the House”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: Ordinary; normal; run-of-the-mill.
Synonyms: sense: realistic
word: have one's feet on the ground
sense: realistic
word: earth-bound
Derived terms: down-to-earther
down-to-earthness
kid gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kid glove
apical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈeɪpɪkəl/
Etymology: From apic- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or connected with the apex.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated at the growing tip of the plant or its roots, in comparison with intercalary growth situated between zones of permanent tissue.
raw_tags: of a meristem
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Produced with the tip of the tongue.
raw_tags: of a sound
Coordinate terms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: laminal
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: coronal
Derived terms: abapical
adapical
anteroapical
apical ancestor
apical annulus
apical ballooning cardiomyopathy
apical dendrite
apical ectodermal ridge
apical germ pore
apicalization
apically
apicalmost
apicalwards
basiapical
basoapical
biapical
cervicoapical
circumapical
dorsoapical
endoapical
juxtaapical
medioapical
nonapical
periapical
posteroapical
preapical
proapical
subapical
transapical
transient apical ballooning syndrome
uniapical
ventroapical
apical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈeɪpɪkəl/
Forms: form: apicals
Etymology: From apic- + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.
foos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foo
intercalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercalations
Etymology: From Latin intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
Senses: glosses: A period inserted into a calendar as in a leap year.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reversible insertion of a molecule between two others.
examples: text: Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.
ref: 1968, Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, page 148:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A layer introduced into a pre-existing sequence.
Derived terms: bisintercalation
cointercalation
deintercalation
intercalation compound
monointercalation
Related terms: intercalant
intercalary
intercalate
intercalated
bissextile
bissextile month
bissextile year
leap year
leap day
kalends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kal.
form: Kalends
Senses: examples: text: My book with Professor [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien – any book in collaboration with that great but dilatory and unmethodical man – is dated, I fear, to appear on the Greek Kalends!
ref: 1950 January 12, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Letters: 1950 [To Sister Penelope CSMV (BOD)]”, in Walter Hooper, editor, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, volumes III (Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963), New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 5–6:
text: The interesting thing about these ceremonies is that they must have originated in a period when the Romans were using true lunar months based on the observation of the crescent moon. The Kalends then would have been the day after the evening on which the crescent had been first sighted, the Nones would have been the first day when the moon was at the first quarter [...] In the calendar of the late Republic the lunar months have disappeared and the days have been fixed into a rigid pattern.
ref: 1967, Agnes Kirsopp Michels, “The Pre-Julian Calendar”, in The Calendar of the Roman Republic, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →OCLC, part I (The Calendar of the First Century B.C.), page 21:
text: [March, May, Quintilis, and October] also have their Nones on the seventh, as Numa [Pompilius] ordained, because Julius [Caesar] changed nothing about them. As for January, Sextilis, and December, they still have their Nones on the fifth, though they began to have thirty-one days after Caesar added two days to each, and it is nineteen days from their Ides to the following Kalends, because in adding the two days Caesar did not want to insert them before either the Nones or the Ides, lest an unprecedented postponement mar religious observance associated with the Nones or Ides themselves, which have a fixed date.
ref: 2011, Macrobius, chapter 14, in Robert A. Kaster, transl., Saturnalia (Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, book I, section 9, page 171:
glosses: Alternative spelling of calends.
untried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tried.
Senses: examples: text: The new guy was inexperienced and untried.
text: With financial losses emerging in 1957, the BTC abandoned the diesel pilot scheme in favour of wholesale orders for untried designs.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
synonyms: untested
antonyms: tested
tried and tested
tried and true
;
battle-tested
coordinate_terms: experimental
;
unproven
glosses: Not yet tried or tested; unknown.
topics: law
glosses: Not put on trial; not taken before a legal court.
tested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛstɪd/
Senses: examples: text: They tested the water for contaminants.
glosses: simple past and past participle of test
Derived terms: time-tested
th'
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: /ð/
/ðə/
Forms: form: th’
Senses: examples: text: And well beſeemes all knights of noble name, / That couett in th’immortall booke of fame / To be eternized, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 152:
text: Maſt. Good: Speake to th’Mariners: fall too’t, yarely, or we run our ſelues a ground, beſtirre, beſtirre.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1, column 1:
text: Then marke th’inducement. Thus it came; giue heede too’t:
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 217, column 1:
text: New life and joy th’ expanding floweret feels: / His pitying Mistress mourns, and mourning heals!
ref: 1796–1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “[Poems Collected in 1796–1797.] Poems of 1976.”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge […], volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 119:
text: HOW OLD’S TH’ BOY?
ref: 1915 September 5, [Merrill] Blosser, “‘Freckles’”, in The Pittsburg Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., →OCLC, Comic Section, page [3], column 1:
glosses: Contraction of the
Derived terms: Besses o' th' Barn
Hall i' th' Wood
Irlams o' th' Height
th'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /ð/
/ðə/
Senses: examples: text: 1. Th’art kinde.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 132, column 1:
glosses: Contraction of thou.
examples: text: She crossed her hand an’ turned her face up like a bird does, only th’ ain’t no birds what can sing like she did; seemed like she was n’t a‐doin’ of it at all,—voice came out of itself, like ’s if ’t was just a waitin’ for a change to git out.
ref: 1891 Feb, Edith Brower, “Treshornish”, in The Overland Monthly, volume XVII, number 98, San Francisco: The Overland Monthly Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: Contraction of there.
Dusty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Dustin.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Dustin.
Dusty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from dusty, from the tendency of persons engaged in the milling of flour to become covered with flour dust.
Senses: glosses: a nickname for someone with the surname Miller
Related terms: Misty
pup tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pup tents
Etymology: Compound of pup (“puppy, small dog”) + tent, from dog tent, military slang for a shelter tent. Attested from the late 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A shelter tent.
examples: text: Colonel Elbridge Colby in Army Talk tells us that the shelter-half, or “pup tent” made its debut during the Civil War. It seems to have been first christened “pup tent” by the Sixth Iowa Infantry at Memphis in 1862 and appears to stem etymologically from the same soldierly self-ridicule that resulted in such terms as “dogface” and “dog tags.”
ref: 1947 July, J.F.L., “Tenting Tonight”, in Infantry Journal, page 37:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A shelter half, one of two halves comprising a shelter tent or dog tent.
shelter tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelter tents
Senses: glosses: a small wedge-shaped tent made by folding two waterproof sheets of material together
Synonyms: pup tent
liana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːˈɑːnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: lianas
Etymology: From French liane (see that entry for more), influenced by lien (“link, bond”).
Senses: examples: text: Many of the older trees presented a very curious appearance from the tresses of a liana hanging from their boughs, and resembling bundles of hay.
ref: 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter II, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: 1884, Achilles Daunt, Frank Redcliffe: A story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela (A Book for Boys), London: T. Nelson & Sons, Chapter 5, p. 99,
Flowering lianas hung in long streaming lines from the outstretched boughs and dipped their pendulous bouquets in the water of the igarape, which reflected the cloudless blue of the sky.
text: Allow friendly natives to walk in front of you on the track. They have sharp eyes for pitfalls, snakes, hornets, and stinging plants. They will cut the lianas and thorny trailers. They like to do it.
ref: 1943 April 4, Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area, Getting About in New Guinea, page 6:
text: They left the drive and stood among the wild tannia under the saman tree. Mrs Tulsi held a liana and offered it to Mr Biswas. While he felt it, she held a thinner liana and pulled it down. ‘As strong as rope,’ she said. ‘The children could skip with this.’
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
Derived terms: lianaed
lianoid
Related terms: climber
rattan
scrambler
twiner
vine
Liana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, derived from Juliana or Eliana
quarta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartas
Etymology: From Portuguese quarta, from Latin quartus (“fourth”), q.v., in reference to the units making up one-fourth of the alqueire (“Portuguese bushel”) or arrantel (“Portuguese pound”). Doublet of quart, quater, and cuaderon.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equal to 3.2–4.8 L in different 19th-century contexts.
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 115 g.
Synonyms: sense: unit of volume
word: Portuguese quart
sense: unit of volume
english: Portuguese contexts
translation: Portuguese contexts
word: quart
sense: unit of mass
word: quarter
sense: unit of mass
english: Portuguese contexts
translation: Portuguese contexts
word: quarter-pound
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of volume
word: celamim (1⁄8 quarta)
sense: unit of volume
word: maquia (1⁄4 quarta)
sense: unit of volume
word: oitava (1⁄2 quarta)
sense: unit of volume
word: alqueire (4 quartas)
sense: unit of mass
word: oitava (1⁄24 quarta)
sense: unit of mass
word: onça (1⁄4 quarta)
sense: unit of mass
word: marco (2 quartas)
sense: unit of mass
english: usually 3 quartas
translation: usually 3 quartas
word: libra
sense: unit of mass
word: arratel (4 quartas)
Burns night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːns naɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɝns naɪt/
Forms: form: Burns nights
form: Burns Night
Etymology: From the name of Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (1759–1796) + night.
Senses: examples: text: The Upholsterers and females in the employment of Messrs. J. Allan & Sons, met on the Burns' night to tea and supper in Mrs. Sheriff's Hotel, […]
ref: 1859, “Aberdeen”, in James Ballantine, editor, Chronicle of the Hundredth Birthday of Robert Burns, Edinburgh; London: A[rchibald] Fullarton & Co., →OCLC, page 145:
text: With those hectic ‘Burns’ Nights’ when the emphasis, like their own, falls on food and drink and the absence of all things unpleasant—on the absence, in particular, of any hard thinking—they go well enough.
ref: 1956, Christina Keith, “The Background of Burns' Thought—Burns' Qualities—Burns and Rousseau—Burns and Homer—Women in Scots Literature and History—Burns as a Poet”, in The Russet Coat: A Critical Study of Burns' Poetry and of Its Background, London: Robert Hale, →OCLC, page 177:
text: In fact, Burns is the only writer whose birthday is celebrated with a party every year by people all over the globe. It's called Burns Night. Why do people celebrate Burns Night? Because Robert Burns was brilliant. And the stuff he wrote is still brilliant.
ref: 2007, Allan Burnett, “Prologue”, in Robert Burns and All That, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN:
text: We commemorate the birth of our Scottish National Poet Rabbie Burns on January 25th. Will you two organise the traditional Burns Night Supper? Yes or no? Yes? Splendid. Over to you. Goodbye.
ref: 2008, Barry Cryer; Graeme Garden, “Burns Night!”, in The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea?, London: Preface Publishing, Random House; republished London: Preface Publishing, Random House, 2009, paperback edition, page 261
text: Burns Night is a social occasion, when friends gather to eat haggis (the famous Scottish dish), tatties (potatoes) and neeps (turnips) and drink a wee dram (a small drink of spirits) or two to Burns' dear departed ghost. The night is also filled with ritual. The haggis is traditionally brought to the table accompanied by a piper playing traditional tunes on the bagpipes, where Burns' 'An Ode to the Haggis' is read out to much applause.
ref: 2009, Jamie Grant, “The Scots”, in CultureShock! Scotland: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (CultureShock!), 4th edition, Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, pages 44–45:
glosses: An event held on or around the evening of 25th January in celebration of the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (born on that day in 1759), usually involving Scottish foods and recitals of his poetry.
wikipedia: Alexander Nasmyth
Robert Burns
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Related terms: Burns supper
haggis
going rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: going rates
Senses: examples: text: He did a terrible job, and then charged more than twice the going rate for it!
glosses: The current standard or usual price, rate, or salary for something.
laterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlatəɹʌɪt/
Forms: form: laterites
Etymology: From Latin later (“brick”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent clouds of reddish dust from the laterite soil blowing about when the train is in motion; after a journey with the windows open a bath is a necessity!
ref: 1948 September and October, W. S. Darby, “The Gold Coast Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:
text: Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 38:
glosses: A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.
Synonyms: murram
Derived terms: laterization
lateritic
seignior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnjə/
enpr: sēnʹ-yûr
ipa: /ˈsiːnjɚ/
Forms: form: seigniors
form: seigneur
form: sieur
form: seigniour
Etymology: From Middle English senyour, from Old French seignor, seignior, from Latin senior, seniōrem. Doublet of seigneur, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Senses: examples: text: Louis XIV’s minions tried to bend New France’s increasingly aboriginal society to his will. […] In the St. Lawrence Valley almost all arable land not reserved for the Church was divided among well-born gentlemen to enable them to become landed aristocrats, or seigniors.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 2, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A feudal lord; a nobleman who held his lands by feudal grant; any lord (holder) of a manor.
glosses: A title of respect, formerly corresponding (especially in France) approximately to Sir.
Related terms: grand seignior
chaverim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaver
doublet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌblət/
Forms: form: doublets
form: doubtlet
Etymology: From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).
Senses: examples: text: Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 75:
text: He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
glosses: A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
Derived terms: doubleted
doubletted
Chaverim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of many secular Jewish organizations.
mesquite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛsˈkiːt/
ipa: /ˈmɛskiːt/
Forms: form: mesquites
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mezquite, mizquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl (“mesquite tree”).
Senses: examples: text: Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
text: […] and no botanist could for a moment fail to recognize this fact, especially as just beyond its banks there is growing on every hand the mesquite, the everywhere-present species of the Lower Sonoran zone.
ref: 1909, Volney Morgan Spalding, Distribution and movements of desert plants:
glosses: Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
glosses: The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.
examples: text: Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: Southward and in the very center of the plain is La Mesa, hidden in the mesquite and with splendid, typically dug, wells.
ref: 1900, David Prescott Barrows, The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California:
glosses: Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.
Derived terms: english: Hilaria
translation: Hilaria
word: curly mesquite
taxonomic: Calliandra eriophylla
word: false mesquite
taxonomic: Thasus neocalifornicus
word: giant mesquite bug
taxonomic: Prosopis glandulosa
word: honey mesquite
word: mesquite bean
taxonomic: Prosopis spp.
word: mesquite bush
word: mesquite flour
taxonomic: Asphondylia prosopidis
word: mesquite gall midge
taxonomic: Bouteloua spp.
word: mesquite grass
word: mesquite gum
taxonomic: Sceloporus grammicus
word: mesquite lizard
taxonomic: Rindgea cyda
word: mesquite looper moth
taxonomic: Phoradendron californicum
word: mesquite mistletoe
taxonomic: Peromyscus merriami
word: mesquite mouse
alt: Norape tener
word: mesquite stinger moth
alt: Friseria cockerelli
word: mesquite webworm moth
word: mock mesquite
taxonomic: Prosopis pubescens
word: screwbean mesquite
word: screw pod mesquite
taxonomic: Prosopis pubescens
word: screw-pod mesquite
taxonomic: Panicum obtusum
word: vine mesquite
Mesquite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Imperial County, California.
glosses: A city in Clark County, Nevada.
glosses: A census-designated place in New Mexico.
glosses: A city in Dallas County and Kaufman County, Texas; a suburb of Dallas.
glosses: A ghost town in Borden County, Texas.
smear campaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smear campaigns
Senses: examples: text: His opponent said it was all a smear campaign to make him look bad in the eyes of the voters.
glosses: An effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.
Related terms: rumor campaign
whisper campaign
character assassination
swiftboating
mudslinging
butte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːt/
ipa: /ˈbʌt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: beaut
Forms: form: buttes
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
Senses: examples: text: Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
ref: 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars”, in The New York Times:
coordinate_terms: mesa
glosses: An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
Derived terms: Box Butte County
Butte County
Butte Creek
Butte Creek Canyon
Butte Falls
Butte Meadows
Butte Valley
Crested Butte
Hart Butte
Mount Crested Butte
Nipple Butte
Butte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buttes
Etymology: Perhaps a variant spelling of Butt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
A census-designated place in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city, the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States, with which it is a consolidated city-county known as Butte-Silver Bow.
glosses: A placename
A village, the county seat of Boyd County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city and village in McLean County, North Dakota, United States.
bestowment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bestowments
Etymology: From bestow + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour; bestowal
glosses: Something, such as an honour, that is bestowed.
hackberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackberries
Etymology: A variant of hagberry.
Senses: glosses: Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Celtis, widespread over the Northern Hemisphere, having small fruit.
glosses: Fruit of these plants.
glosses: The wood of these plants.
glosses: A bird cherry, any of species Prunus padus of cherry trees, of Eurasia, or its berry.
Synonyms: sense: Prunus padus
word: bird cherry
sense: Prunus padus
word: hagberry
Derived terms: taxonomic: Celtis integrifolia
word: African hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis bungeana
word: Bunge's Hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis caucasica
word: Caucasian hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis occidentalis
word: common hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis sinensis
word: Chinese hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis pallida
word: desert hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis tenuifolia
word: dwarf hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis australis
word: European hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis labilis
word: Hubei hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis iguanaea
word: iguana hackberry
english: also Celtis jessoensis
translation: also Celtis jessoensis
taxonomic: Celtis sinensis
word: Japanese hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis koraiensis
word: Korean hackberry
word: Lindheimer's hackberry (Celtis lindheimeri
word: Mediterranean hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis reticulata
word: netleaf hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis occidentalis
word: northern hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis tournefortii
word: oriental hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis pallida
word: shiny hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis laevigata
word: southern hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis laevigata
word: southern sugar hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis ehrenbergiana
word: spiny hackberry
taxonomic: Celtis laevigata
word: sugar hackberry
infusoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infusorium
Derived terms: infusorial
infusorian
infusoriform
infusorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From infusoria + -al.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or containing infusoria
Related terms: infusorian
infusorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infusorians
Etymology: From infusoria + -an.
Senses: glosses: any member of the infusoria
Related terms: infusorial
infusorioid
senshuraku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senshuraku
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 千秋楽 (senshūraku, literally “music of a thousand autumns”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The last day of a fifteen-day tournament, always on a Sunday.
shihon-bashira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shihon-bashira
Etymology: From Japanese 四本柱 (shi-hon-bashira, literally “four pillars”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The four pillars that support the tsuriyane over the sumo ring; in modern practice removed for better television coverage.
Carling Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carling Sundays
Etymology: From the carling peas traditionally eaten on the day, themselves named for Care Sunday.
Senses: synonyms: word: Carl Sunday
word: Carle Sunday
word: Passion Sunday
extra: the fifth Sunday in Lent
glosses: Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.
Care Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English caru (“care”) in its sense of “sorrow, trouble, suffering,” used as a calque of Latin passio (“passion”) in its sense of “suffering”, in reference to the Passion of Christ preceding and during Jesus's crucifixion.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.
synonyms: word: Passion Sunday
extra: the fifth Sunday in Lent
Related terms: carcake
carling
Carling Sunday
sulf-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: sulph-
Etymology: Shortening of sulfur.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sulfo-; used before a vowel.
sulph-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Shortening of sulphur.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulf-.
sulpho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Shortening of sulphur.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfo-.
halva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːlˈvɑː/
ipa: /ˈhɑːlvɑː/
ipa: /ˈxɑːlvə/
Forms: form: halvas
form: khalva
form: halava
form: halavah
form: halawa
form: halaweh
form: halvah
form: halwa
form: halwah
form: hulwa
Etymology: From Hebrew חלווה (khálva), from Romanian halva, from Ottoman Turkish حلوا (helva), from Persian حلوا (halvâ), from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā). Cognate with Halwai.
Senses: examples: text: Just before Christmas, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, sent the White House a box of holiday gifts with a pointed political message. Inside were items (body lotion, halvah, olive oil) produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
ref: 2016 January 26, Eyal Press, “When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A confection usually made from crushed sesame seeds and honey. It is a traditional dessert in South Asia, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Derived terms: sohan halva
Related terms: Halwai
halwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halwas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of halva.
Judica Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Judica (“Judge!”), from the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 43.
Senses: examples: text: Thus in 1647, I in all humility accepted this removal, and preached my trial sermon on Judica Sunday, in the presence of the parishioners and commissaries.
ref: 1862, Mrs. Malcolm (translator), Gustav Freytag (author), Martin Bötzinger (primary source), Pictures of German Life In the XVᵗʰ, XVIᵗʰ and XVIIᵗʰ Centuries, volume 2, page 115, Chapman and Hall (London)
text: The diet at Nuremberg was to be held on Invocavit Sunday, 2nd March, and that at the Emperor’s Court on Judica''' Sunday, 3Oth March.
ref: 1906, Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages, page 96:
text: The fifth Sunday is “Judicia.” (Judge. Psalm 43:I.) Judicia Sunday is sometimes also called Black Sunday in contrast with the Sunday before it, and the nearness of the dark sorrows of Passion Week and Good Friday.
ref: 1950, “Luther League Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Lutheran Church in America:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.
synonyms: word: Passion Sunday
extra: the fifth Sunday in Lent
Related terms: Invocavit Sunday
Reminiscere Sunday
Oculi Sunday
Laetare Sunday
Passiontide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Passion + -tide.
Senses: examples: "The last two weeks of Lent form the season called Passiontide. During this time all crucifixes and sacred images are veiled in violet. In Masses of the season, the psalm Judica me is not said at the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, and there is no Gloria Patri at the Introit or at the Lavabo".
glosses: The period in the Christian calendar from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
-tide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /taɪd/
Etymology: From Middle English -tide, -tyde, from Old English -tīd (in compounds), from tīd (“point or portion of time, due time, period, season; feast-day, canonical hour”); see tide.
Senses: glosses: Time, period (especially around an event or festival), season; often added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival or a season beginning or ending with it.
-tide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /taɪd/
Etymology: From peptide, glycopeptide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of peptides and glycopeptides.
tyro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtaɪɹoʊ/
Forms: form: tyros
form: tyroes
form: tiro
Etymology: From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”). In Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.
Senses: examples: text: I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: Thus[…] he separates[…] the details and the whole[…]; and because details alone[…] are the sign of a tyro's work, he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details […] are the sign of the production of a consummate master.
ref: 1843, [John Ruskin], “Preface to the second edition”, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page xxxii:
text: 1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525,
Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...
text: The text, though, was marvellously accurate for a tyro’s work; and I concluded that Akeley must have used a machine at some previous period—perhaps in college.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
text: Switzerland for Railfans, by B. J. Prigmore and W. J. Wyse (1s.) is a stencilled pamphlet produced by the Electric Railway Society with a number of useful tips for the tyro planning his first visit.
ref: 1959 May, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 271:
text: Alliance with the equally youthful Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, tyro mathematician of genius and darling of the Parisian salons, led to the two men commissioning articles for the new venture straight away [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 171:
synonyms: word: abecedarian
word: alphabetarian
word: apprentice
word: amateur
word: beginner
word: bun
word: colt
word: first-timer
word: fledgling
word: fresh meat
word: freshman
word: greenhorn
word: greenie
word: greener
word: homo novus
word: inceptor
word: initiate
word: Johnny-come-lately
word: learner
word: neophyte
word: newbie
word: newb
word: newbro
word: new chum
word: newcomer
word: newling
word: noob
word: n00b
word: novice
word: novitiate
word: nozzer
word: nub
word: nubcake
word: puny
word: pup
word: probationer
word: probationist
word: probie
word: recruit
word: stranger
word: rookie
word: tenderfoot
word: trainee
word: tyro
word: younker
glosses: A beginner; a novice.
Related terms: tyrociny
tirocinium
upwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpwədz/
ipa: /ˈʌpwɚdz/
Etymology: From Middle English upwardes, from Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -wards. Cognate with Dutch opwaarts (“upwards”), German aufwärts (“upwards”).
Senses: examples: text: look upwards
text: push upwards
text: soar upwards
text: The balloon drifted upwards into the sky.
glosses: Towards a (higher) position closer to the sky than the ground.
examples: text: Prices are moving steadily upwards.
glosses: To a higher figure or amount.
glosses: Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
glosses: Backwards in time, into the past.
glosses: To or into later life.
Synonyms: upward
up
Derived terms: bottom-upwards
fail upwards
onwards and upwards
punch upwards
upward of
upwards of
saviour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saviours
Senses: glosses: British and Canada spelling of savior.
midden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdən/
rhymes: -ɪdən
Forms: form: middens
Etymology: From Middle English midding, myddyng, from Old Danish mykdyngja, (a compound of Old Norse myk, myki (“muck, manure”) and dyngja (“dung, dungpile”)), whence also Danish møgdynge and mødding, Norwegian mødding, dialectal Swedish mödding.
Senses: glosses: A dungheap.
examples: text: Untouched by the decaying middens in which they live, they emerge into the sunshine immaculate and serene. The Burmese must be the best-dressed people in the world.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
text: Strange rubbish, not the tins and paper and boxes and other containers you would expect in a town, but a finer kind of waste […] that made the middens look like grey-black mounds of sifted earth.
ref: 1979, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River:
glosses: A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An accumulation, deposit, or soil derived from occupation debris, rubbish, or other by-products of human activity, such as bone, shell, ash, or decayed organic materials; or a pile or mound of such materials, often prehistoric.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.
Derived terms: megamidden
midden-hill
middenstead
midgie
muckmidden
spiritual midden
northward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹθwɚd/
ipa: /ˈnɔːθwəd/
Etymology: From north + -ward.
Senses: glosses: The direction or area lying to the north of a place.
northward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹθwɚd/
ipa: /ˈnɔːθwəd/
Forms: form: more northward
form: most northward
Etymology: From north + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Situated or directed towards the north; moving or facing towards the north.
Derived terms: northward equinox
northwardly
northwards
northward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹθwɚd/
ipa: /ˈnɔːθwəd/
Forms: form: more northward
form: most northward
Etymology: From north + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards the north; in a northerly direction.
proudly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaʊdli/
Forms: form: proudlier
form: more proudly
form: proudliest
form: most proudly
form: prowdly
Etymology: From Middle English proutly, proudliche, prudeliche, prudliche, prouteliche, from Old English prūtlīċe, equivalent to proud + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And with domes and pinnacles the dreams arose and stood up proudly between the river and the sky, all shimmering white to the morning.
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1:
text: A word of warning: You might notice a few more unshaved upper lips proudly displayed by men in the next few weeks.
ref: 2011 November 1, Emily Smith, “‘Movember’ gets hairy, for a cause”, in CNN:
text: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2012:
text: "We delivered [the project] £5 million under budget and on time," Hardwick says proudly.
ref: 2023 November 29, Richard Foster, “Tyne & Wear Metro goes with the flow”, in RAIL, number 997, page 35:
glosses: In a proud manner.
expendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/
Forms: form: more expendable
form: most expendable
Etymology: From expend + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
glosses: Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
examples: text: The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
glosses: Designed for a single use; not reusable.
examples: text: The research department was deemed expendable, and its funding was not renewed.
glosses: Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
examples: text: In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.
text: He was expendable, like commodities past their use.
ref: 1997, G. Cajetan Luna, Youths Living with HIV: Self-Evident Truths, page 10:
text: The Taunton-Minehead line (now managed by the West Somerset Railway) was considered much more expendable.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: Regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
Synonyms: sense: not inexhaustible
word: exhaustible
sense: not inexhaustible
word: finite
sense: not inexhaustible
word: limited
sense: not reusable
word: dispensable
sense: not reusable
word: disposable
sense: not reusable
word: throwaway
sense: not essential or mandatory
word: adjunct
sense: not essential or mandatory
word: dispensable
sense: not essential or mandatory
word: redundant
sense: not essential or mandatory
word: superfluous
sense: not worth saving or preserving
word: collateral
sense: not worth saving or preserving
word: inconsiderable
sense: not worth saving or preserving
word: sacrificable
sense: not worth saving or preserving
word: worthless
Derived terms: nonexpendable
unexpendable
expendable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛndəbəl/
Forms: form: expendables
Etymology: From expend + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable, since he was always picked as point man.
glosses: An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
Derived terms: expendability
expendably
polliwog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polliwogs
form: polliwag
form: pollywog
form: poliwag
form: polliwig
form: polliwiggle
form: pollywig
form: polwig
form: porriwiggle
form: purwiggy
form: porwigle
form: porwiggle
Etymology: From earlier polwigge, from Middle English polwygle, equal to poll (“head”) + wiggle.
Senses: examples: text: So Tommy sang the following verse: “The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!”
ref: 1897, L. Frank Baum, “The Story of Tommy Tucker”, in Mother Goose in Prose:
glosses: A tadpole.
Derived terms: golliwog
Australia Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: 26th January, Australia's National Day in commemoration of the foundation of the first settlement in 1788.
Synonyms: word: Invasion Day
missed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭst
ipa: /mɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: mist
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miss
Derived terms: unmissed
movements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːv.mənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of movement
helped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlpt/
rhymes: -ɛlpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of help
Derived terms: unhelped
issued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪʃud/
ipa: /ˈɪʃjud/
ipa: /ˈɪsjuːd/
ipa: /ˈɪʃjuːd/
ipa: /ˈɪʃuːd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of issue.
millions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪljənz/
Senses: examples: text: 1815?: Captain Dugald Carmichael, F.L.s., the Rev. Colin Smith (editor), Biographical Notice of the late Captain Dugald Carmichael, F.L.s., volume 2, >page 343; quoted in:
text: “ […] The Hindoo bears a superstitious veneration for every thing possessed of life : the Briton venerates nothing, but sacrifices all, without distinction, to his appetite or his amusement. The former worships 333 millions of gods, male or female, some with two arms, some with two hundred; the latter, so far as can be gathered from his actions, worships neither god nor goddess. […] ”
ref: 1883, William Jackson Hooker, editor, Botanical miscellany […] , page 40:
text: The Great Plain extends from the Yang-tzŭ River to the mountains which divide Chih-li and Shan-hsi and Manchuria, and supports a population estimated at more than a hundred millions, reminding one in density of inhabitants of the province of Bengal.
ref: 1907, Arthur Henderson Smith, The Uplift of China, The Eddy Press, page 8:
glosses: plural of million
Derived terms: multimillions