cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
leaf-cutter ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-cutter ants
form: leafcutter ant
Senses: synonyms: leaf-cutting ant
glosses: Any of the 41 species of ants in the genera Atta and Acromyrmex, that cut fragments from leaves and takes them to its colony's nest.
Derived terms: Texas leafcutter ant
Related terms: leaf-cutter bee
Atta
Acromyrmex
leaf-cutter bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-cutter bees
form: leafcutter bee
Senses: glosses: A bee of the family Megachilidae that cuts fragments from leaves and uses them to build its nest.
Synonyms: word: jelly-jelly bee
word: leaf-cutting bee
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Osmia spp.
word: mason bee
Derived terms: taxonomic: Megachile rotundata
word: alfalfa leafcutter bee
Related terms: word: carder bee
taxonomic: Bombus (Psithyrus)
word: cuckoo-bumblebee
word: leaf-cutter ant
leafcutter bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafcutter bees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-cutter bee.
leafcutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafcutters
Etymology: From leaf + cutter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-cutter.
leafcutter ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafcutter ants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-cutter ant.
leaf-cutting bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-cutting bees
Senses: glosses: A leaf-cutter bee, of the family Megachilidae.
leaf-cutting ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-cutting ants
Senses: glosses: A leaf-cutter ant.
programmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of programma
leaf-cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That cuts leaves; used in the names of various insects.
Derived terms: leaf-cutting ant
leaf-cutting bee
leaffish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaffishes
form: leaffish
Etymology: From leaf + fish.
Senses: glosses: A small South American freshwater fish of the family Polycentridae.
glosses: An Asian leaffish, of family Nandidae
glosses: Taenianotus triacanthus (leaf scorpionfish), of the family Scorpaenidae.
Derived terms: word: Asian leaffish
taxonomic: Pristolepis grootii
word: Indonesian leaffish
taxonomic: Pristolepis fasciata
word: Malayan leaffish
taxonomic: Pristolepis marginata
word: Malabar leaffish
taxonomic: Pristolepis pentacantha
word: Wayanad leaffish
leaf-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having feet that resemble leaves.
Derived terms: leaf-footed bug
leaf-hopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-hoppers
form: leaf hopper
form: leafhopper
Senses: examples: text: The prominent leaf defoliators, as the rose-chafer and flea-beetle, frequently destroy or vastly injure the crop over large districts, and the little leaf-hopper, though rarely preventing a partial crop, is so uniformly present and widely distributed as to probably levy a heavier tribute on the grape in this country than any other insect.
ref: 1898, C. L. Marlatt, The Principal Insect Enemies of the Grape, page 3:
text: 1907, Altus Lacy Quaintance, Cornelius Lott Shear, Insect and Fungous Enemies of the Grape East of the Rocky Mountains, Farmers' Bulletin 284, US Department of Agriculture, page 19,
Throughout the United States and Canada, wherever the grape is grown, this small leaf-hopper (Typhlocyba comes Say) will almost invariably be found in greater or less numbers infesting the lower surface of the leaf, where it feeds and breeds, increasing in numbers as the season progresses, until by late summer and fall the vines are often literally swarming with it.
text: 1933, Eubanks Carsner, Curly-top resistance in sugar beets and tests of the resistant variety U. S. No. 1, Technical Bulletin 360, US Department of Agriculture, page 3,
Attacks on the leaf hoppers with insecticides and mechanical means have, in the past, been conducted mainly in sugar-beet fields.
text: One of the chief failings of this species is the susceptibility of the leaves to the attack of the leaf-hopper.
ref: 2008, U. Hedrick, Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits, page 230:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any insect of the family Cicadellidae.
Synonyms: hopper
Derived terms: beet leafhopper
burning grape leafhopper
leafhopper assassin bug
potato leafhopper
rice leafhopper
two-spotted leafhopper
vine leafhopper
white apple leafhopper
Related terms: plant-hopper
tree-hopper
leaf hopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf hoppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-hopper.
leafhopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafhoppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-hopper.
Derived terms: eared leafhopper
colet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colets
form: collet
Etymology: From acolyte.
Senses: glosses: A lower servant in a church.
cyanophycean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /saɪˌænəʊˈfaɪsi.ən/
Etymology: Cyanophyceae + -an
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Cyanophyceae class of blue-green algae (now called Cyanobacteria); cyanobacterial.
artiodactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːtɪəʊˈdaktɪl/
Forms: form: artiodactyls
Etymology: Learned borrowing from translingual Artiodactyla, from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger, toe”).
Senses: examples: text: I have been unable to find out if these are linked in some way to the 1945 Budapest hippos, with the possibility this would create of a parallel history of Central Europe seen through the endurance of one brave African artiodactyl family.
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 397:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: even-toed ungulate
glosses: Any ungulate mammal with an even number of toes and belonging to the Artiodactyla, including pigs, sheep, deer, cattle, and most grazing animals. In contrast, horses have an odd number of toes and as such are not Artiodactyla, but Perissodactyla.
Related terms: artiodactylous
perissodactyl
fauchard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːt͡ʃə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: fauchards
Etymology: Borrowed from French fauchard.
Senses: glosses: An early European weapon consisting of a curved blade on a long pole.
perissodactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perissodactyls
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, toe”). Compare the genus name Perissodactyla.
Senses: examples: text: The chalicotheres were among the strangest mammals that ever lived. They were perissodactyls - relatives of horses, rhinos and tapirs - and if all you had seen of one was its head, you might have mistaken it for a very strange horse.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 102:
glosses: Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, an equid, a tapir, or a rhinoceros.
Derived terms: perissodactylism
Related terms: perissodactylous
artiodactyl
perissodactyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perissodactyl
artiodactyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artiodactyl
Schuhplattler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schuhplattlers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schuhplattler, from Schuhe (“shoes”) + platt (“flat”) + -ler.
Senses: examples: text: The book’s cover, borrowed from an old folkloristic LP, Jodler und Schuhplattler, depicts the Bavarian Schuhplattler, “the most virile and joyful of the world’s dances.” […] Schuhplattlers feature yodels that highlight the males’ vigor—they still have energy left to yodel.
ref: 2012, Bart Plantenga, “Yoknowledgments”, in Yodel in Hi-Fi: From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page xix, column 2:
text: And as I drove in the fast-moving Saturday traffic listening to Schuhplattler, I thought it probably was not possible to be a European immigrant from their era, or from my own, for that matter, without being a snob of some order: a snob about culture, […]
ref: 2024, Carlos Ramet, chapter 8, in The Quiet Limit of the World, RIZE, Running Wild Press, →ISBN:
related: word: Schuhplattle#Noun//schuhplattle#Noun
word: schuhplattler#Noun
glosses: A folk dance from Bavaria and Austria in which the thighs and the soles of the shoes are slapped.
examples: text: Brassy German bands play oompapah music for gaily costumed locals, ethnic dancers, Schuhplattlers, and entertainers from Munich and Austria.
ref: 1987, Edna Staebler, “Oktoberfest”, in Schmecks Appeal: More Mennonite Country Cooking, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, published 1988, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Frank and Ann Uher, seen here, were well-known Schuhplattlers.
ref: 2004, Erika Mailman, “Laurel and Redwood Heights”, in Oakland Hills (Images of America), Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Bucks Country Vineyards in New Hope, Pennsylvania, was established in 1973 and held its first Sangria Festival in 1975. In 1978 its festival calendar called for a May Wine Festival with square dancers, a June Sangria Festival featuring the José Greco Dancers and Musicians, a July Italian Festival with several folk dance groups, an August Polish Festival with folk dancers, and an Oktoberfest celebration with Bavarian Schuhplattlers.
ref: 2014, Hudson Cattell, “Winery Events”, in Wines of Eastern North America: From Prohibition to the Present—A History and Desk Reference, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Winery Events and Marketing in the 1970s), page 146:
text: The Schuhplattler, or shoe slapper, was Frederick Bauer, a third generation German American who apparently charmed Grandma at a beer festival. If you’ve never seen Schuhplattlers perform, it’s quite a sight.
ref: 2015 September, Linda K. Sienkiewicz, chapter 3, in In the Context of Love, Edison, N.J.: Buddhapuss Ink, LLC, →ISBN, page 17:
related: word: schuhplattler#Noun
glosses: One who dances the Schuhplattler.
Schuhplattler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Schuhplattlers
form: Schuhplattlering
form: Schuhplattlered
form: Schuhplattlered
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schuhplattler, from Schuhe (“shoes”) + platt (“flat”) + -ler.
Senses: examples: text: There will be merry-making galore, but Sarah Gertrude Knott, director of the festival, says an important aim is to break down barriers of prejudice that exist among different groups. Assisting her (when he’s not “Schuhplattlering”) is Dave Rosenberg (photo at right).
ref: 1960 May 29, Harold J. Flecknoe, “Folk Dancers From All Over”, in The Sunday Star, 108th year, number 150, Washington, D.C., →OCLC, “The Sunday Star Magazine” section, page 14:
text: The all-over-the-floor show is provided by five lederhosen-clad, frenetic Oberlohr Brothers playing and singing and wood-chopping and “Schuhplattlering” around while Franzi, her hands on her dirndl-skirted hips, yodels her very heart and tonsils out.
ref: 1974 March, Margaret Bennett, “Colorado Spring Skiing”, in Earle R[utherford] MacAusland, editor, Gourmet: The Magazine of Good Living, volume XXXIV, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Gourmet, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 3:
text: Decked out in their lederhosen, Shutz, Welsh, Brown and Bortolin might look funny to some people, but they are Schuhplattlering all the way to the bank.
ref: 2006 October 16, “Dancing waiters serve up Schuhplattler”, in Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nev., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5E, column 6:
text: He was proud that all his children and 4 grandchildren Schuhplattlered for the BSC.
ref: 2017 March 10, Ansberg-West Funeral Directors, “Diedrich ‘Dick’ Garbers”, in The Blade, Toledo, Oh., via Legacy.com, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2025:
glosses: Rare form of schuhplattle (“to dance the Schuhplattler”)
leafletted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leaflet
polyplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyplastic
form: most polyplastic
Etymology: From poly- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: That undergoes several transformations into different forms
leafletting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leaflet
leafletting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaflettings
Senses: examples: text: In Los Angeles, a boycott of all Mann's Theatres plus a leafletting of Filmex and picketing of the theater where the film was being shown resulted in "Snuff's" departure from that city.
ref: 1976 April 10, “"Snuff" Departs from Boston and Loss Angeles”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: A demonstration at which leaflets are distributed.
polyplastid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyplastids
Etymology: From poly- + plastid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A multicellular organism
Derived terms: polyplastidic
polygoneutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The state of being polygoneutic
leaf-miner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-miners
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf miner.
polyadenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + aden- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: polyadenopathy
polyadenosis[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
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adenopathy
lymphadenopathy
glosses: A condition in which many of the lymph nodes are inflamed.
leaf miner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf miners
form: leaf-miner
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An insect larva that lives between the epidermis of a leaf and consumes the leaf tissue.
Derived terms: word: American serpentine leaf miner
taxonomic: Lyonetia clerkella
word: apple leaf miner
word: birch leaf miner
word: birch-leaf miner
word: horse chestnut leaf miner
word: ribbed apple leaf miner
word: small olive leaf miner
word: South American leaf miner
word: vine-leaf miner
word: wild crab leaf miner
placoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placoderms
Etymology: From placo- + -derm, after German Placoderm.
Senses: examples: text: Out to sea are placoderms – heavily armoured fish, some of them more than six metres (twenty feet) long and equipped with massive, powerful jaws.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of an extinct paraphyletic class (Placodermi) of jawed fish with armored heads and thoraces; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods.
placoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more placoderm
form: most placoderm
Etymology: From placo- + -derm, after German Placoderm.
Senses: examples: text: Research published recently on placoderm fish fossils from Scottish Devonian lakes (around 365 myo) found evidence for how this extinct group of animals copulated.
ref: 2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the paraphyletic class Placodermi.
Related terms: Placodermi
placoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placoderm
leaf-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a projection resembling a leaf on the nose.
Derived terms: leaf-nosed bat
leaf-nosed snake
leaf-nosed bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-nosed bats
Senses: glosses: A bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having a pointed projection on the snout.
Derived terms: American leaf-nosed bat
short-tailed leaf-nosed bat
leaf protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf proteins
Senses: glosses: A protein found in leaves extracted for use as a food for humans.
Derived terms: leaf protein concentrate
leaf protein concentrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf protein concentrates
Senses: hypernyms: protein concentrate
glosses: Concentrated leaf protein used as a food for human beings.
leaf-roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-rollers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf roller.
leaf roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf rollers
form: leaf-roller
Senses: glosses: A caterpillar of any tortrix moth (Tortricidae family), a pest that infests plants and rolls up their leaves.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pammene fasciana
word: chestnut leaf roller
taxonomic: Tortricidae spp.
word: leaf roller moth
taxonomic: Archips rosana
word: rose leaf roller
taxonomic: Ancylis comptana
word: strawberry leaf roller
taxonomic: Sparganothis pilleriana
word: vine leaf roller
leaf-rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Describing a leaf roller.
Derived terms: leaf-rolling tortrix
leaf-scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-scales
Senses: glosses: A scale on the stem of a plant that turns into a leaf.
Derived terms: leafscale gulper shark
leaf-silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: silver leaf
Derived terms: leaf-silvering
leaf-spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf spot.
leaf spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-spot
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: Any of various fungal or bacterial diseases of plants that cause blemishes on their leaves.
Derived terms: angular leaf spot
brown leaf spot
eumusae leaf spot
helminthosporium leaf spot
leaf-spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-springs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf spring.
leaf spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf springs
Senses: synonyms: carriage spring
cart spring
laminated spring
semi-elliptical spring
hypernyms: spring
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component#Noun
part#Noun
coordinate_terms: coil spring
glosses: A spring in the form of a curved length(s) of steel, used in the suspension of wheeled vehicles
Derived terms: elliptic leaf spring > elliptic spring
full elliptic leaf spring
helper leaf spring
leaf springing
leaf-sprung
longitudinal leaf spring
multileaf spring
parabolic leaf spring
quarter-elliptic leaf spring
semi-elliptic leaf spring
single leaf spring
tapered leaf spring
taper leaf spring
transverse leaf spring
leaf-warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-warblers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf warbler.
leaf warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf warblers
form: leaf-warbler
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous small insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Phylloscopus.
Derived terms: alpine leaf warbler
Blyth's leaf warbler
Brooks' leaf warbler
Chinese leaf warbler
Claudia's leaf warbler
Davison's leaf warbler
Emei leaf warbler
Gansu leaf warbler
Hainan leaf warbler
Hartert's leaf warbler
Hume's leaf warbler
Ijima's leaf warbler
island leaf warbler
Izu leaf warbler
Japanese leaf warbler
Kamchatka leaf warbler
Kloss's leaf warbler
Kolombangara leaf warbler
large-billed leaf warbler
lemon-throated leaf warbler
limestone leaf warbler
Makira leaf warbler
Mandell's leaf warbler
mountain leaf warbler
pale-legged leaf warbler
Pallas's leaf warbler
Philippine leaf warbler
plain leaf warbler
Rote leaf warbler
Sakhalin leaf warbler
San Cristobal leaf warbler
Sichuan leaf warbler
Simla leaf warbler
sombre leaf warbler
Sulawesi leaf warbler
Tickell's leaf warbler
Timor leaf warbler
Tytler's leaf warbler
white-tailed leaf warbler
leaf-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-worms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leafworm.
leafworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafworms
form: leaf worm
form: leaf-worm
Etymology: From Middle English *leefworm, *lefwurm, from Old English lēafwyrm (“caterpillar”), equivalent to leaf + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Spodoptera littoralis
word: African cotton leafworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera litura
word: cotton leafworm
taxonomic: Alabama argillacea
word: cotton leafworm moth
taxonomic: Spodoptera littoralis
word: Egyptian cotton leafworm
taxonomic: Spodoptera litura
word: oriental leafworm moth
summiteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summiteers
Etymology: From summit + -eer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who reaches a summit.
glosses: A mountain climber.
glosses: Someone who attends a conference denoted as a summit.
leavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leavy
form: most leavy
Senses: examples: text: Within the furthest end thereof there was a pleasant Bowre
So vaulted with the leauie trées the Sunne had there no powre:
ref: 1567, Ovid, “The Third Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
text: Now neere enough:
Your leauy Skreenes throw downe,
And shew like those you are […]
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 V, scene vi]:
text: Thus when devouring hatchet-men invade,
With sounding steel, the forest’s leavy head,
The mountains ring with their repeated strokes;
ref: 1758, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Edinburgh: Canto 2, page 20:
text: Put a good bunch of leavy herbs, such as basil, marjoram, dill, tarragon and parsley into the blender or processor and process for a few moments until roughly chopped, then add the butter, garlic and seasoning and continue as above.
ref: 1991, Mary Berry, Mary Berry’s Cookery Course, Piatkus, →ISBN, page 224:
text: While painted rails give you the impression that you are crossing a bridge and winding paths provide coherence to the shade lover’s garden, where white painted ladies shelter in the leavy coolness.
ref: 1994, Glorious New Zealand Gardens, Premier Books, →ISBN:
text: A low road ran off Queen Margaret Drive, where the BBC was situated, and alongside the leavy, tree-lined Botanic Gardens.
ref: 1996, Margaret Thomson Davis, A Kind of Immortality, London: Century, →ISBN, page 192:
text: Folic acid is found in grains and certain dark green leavy vegetables.
ref: 1999 May 30, “Fruits and veggies may protect against stroke”, in Regina Sun, page 38, column 2:
text: Antioxidant / Folate | Food source / Spinach, broccoli, curly kale, green cabbage and other green leavy vegetables
ref: 2004, Anita Bean, The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, 4th edition, Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Homing birds nesting in tall, leavy trees / In splendor performing their rare symphonies.
ref: 2009 April 5, Fair Craig Hash, “Ci et Ca Avec Belle”, in The Rayne Acadian-Tribune, 114th year, number 25, Rayne, La., page 9, column 3:
text: I thought the canna needed sun but they’re rowed up head-high in the shade along the back fence like a tall line of leavy green soldiers.
ref: 2019 August 11, Teddy Allen, “It’s not the heat, it’s … wait; it IS the heat!”, in The Times, volume 148, number 257, page 4D, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of leafy.
Derived terms: leaviness
leavy greens
leather leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leather leafs
form: leatherleaf
Senses: glosses: A shrub (Chamaedaphne calyculata) found in the cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Derived terms: leatherleaf fern
leatherleaf saxifrage
leatherleaf slug
leatherleaf wood fern
fig-leaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Used in the names of various plants whose leaves resemble those of the fig.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Chenopodium ficifolium
word: fig-leaved goosefoot
taxonomic: Cucurbita ficifolia
word: fig-leaved gourd
word: fig-leaved holly (Ilex ficoidea
taxonomic: Ipomoea ficifolia
word: fig-leaved morning glory
taxonomic: Cladonia macrophylla
word: fig-leaved pixie lichen
taxonomic: Cucurbita ficifolia
word: fig-leaved squash
Related terms: fig leaf
ivy-leaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Used in the names of various plants the leaves of which resemble those of the ivy.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Wahlenbergia hederacea
word: ivy-leaved bellflower
taxonomic: Veronica hederaefolia
word: ivy-leaved chickweed
taxonomic: Lemna trisulca
word: ivy-leaved duckweed
taxonomic: Pelargonium peltatum
word: ivy-leaved geranium
taxonomic: Acer cissifolium
word: ivy-leaved maple
taxonomic: Ipomoea hederifolia
word: ivy-leaved morning glory
taxonomic: Pelargonium peltatum
word: ivy-leaved pelargonium
taxonomic: Veronica hederaefolia
word: ivy-leaved speedwell
word: ivy-leaved toad-flax
taxonomic: Cymbalaria muralis
word: ivy-leaved toadflax
oak-leaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Used in the names of various plants the leaves of which resemble those of the oak.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Banksia quercifolia
word: oak-leaved banksia
alt: [Chenopodium quercifolium ⇒ ] Oxybasis glauca
word: oak-leaved goosefoot
maple-leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maple-leaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maple leaf.
Derived terms: maple-leaf begonia
maple-leaf viburnum
multileaf collimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multileaf collimators
Etymology: So called because it is made up of individual "leaves" of a chemical element, usually tungsten, that can move independently in and out of the path of a particle beam in order to block it.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A collimator used in a linear accelerator to provide conformal shaping of beams for radiotherapy. Abbreviation: MLC.
Derived terms: mini-multileaf collimator
oakleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊkˌliːf/
ipa: /ˈoʊkˌlif/
Forms: form: oakleaves
form: oak-leaf
form: oak leaf
Etymology: From oak + leaf.
Senses: glosses: The leaf of the oak.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A device, badge or emblem shaped like the leaf of an oak, and indicating an award. (see Oak leaves)
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Kallima.
Derived terms: oakleaf hydrangea
Related terms: oak-leaved
oak wreath
straight dinkum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Variation of fair dinkum.
Senses: examples: text: My precious, please don′t ever send me a penny of extra money. That is very straight dinkum.
ref: 1977, Katherine Mansfield, The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield: A Selection, page 96:
glosses: Genuine, honest, fair and square.
Synonyms: sense: genuine, honest
word: fair dinkum
sense: genuine, honest
word: square dinkum
straight dinkum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Variation of fair dinkum.
Senses: examples: text: “Say, cross my heart straight dinkum.”
ref: 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay:
text: This morning, I promise cross my heart straight Dinkum (is that right?) will be the last, the very last, of our awful moments.
ref: 1983, John Middleton Murry, The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield, page 178:
text: […]she said scornfully, “One of the girls gave it to you. Tell me at once who it was.”
“Cripes, no, straight dinkum. I just picked it up.”
ref: 1990, Norman Lindsay, edited by Keith Wingrove, Norman Lindsay on Art, Life, and Literature, page 41:
glosses: Truly, honestly.
Synonyms: sense: truly, honestly
word: fair dinkum
sense: truly, honestly
word: square dinkum
repealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repeal
repealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: repealings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is repealed.
palm-leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: The leaf of the palm, used attributively in various terms (see Derived terms below).
Derived terms: palm-leaf book
palm-leaf manuscript
palm-leaf pattern
palm-leaf snail
leaf frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf frogs
Etymology: Compound of leaf + frog. Compare German Laubfrosch (“treefrog”), Faroese leyvfroskur (“treefrog”).
Senses: glosses: Any tree frog of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae.
Derived terms: barred leaf frog
blue-sided leaf frog
Burmeister's leaf frog
giant leaf frog
gliding leaf frog
misfit leaf frog
Morelet’s leaf frog
northern orange-legged leaf frog
pink-sided leaf frog
red-eyed tree frog
slender leaf frog
southern orange-legged leaf frog
tarsier leaf frog
waxy monkey leaf frog
yellow-eyed leaf frog
leaf green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-green
Senses: glosses: A bright green like the usual colour of leaves.
leaf green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: leaf-green
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-green.
Derived terms: leaf green tree frog
leaf-green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf green.
leaf-green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having leaf green as its colour.
fillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filling
sforzato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sforzando.
sforzato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sforzatos
form: sforzati
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sforzando.
sforzati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sforzato
incantate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incantates
form: incantating
form: incantated
form: incantated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin incantātus, perfect passive participle of incantō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of enchant and incant, cognate with French incantation.
Senses: examples: text: Your modern witch never incantates in public.
ref: 1969, Status, numbers 218-227, Curtis Publishing Company:
text: Yet these are words of magic incantated by a non-religious priest: a poet.
ref: 1985, Glenda Abramson, Essays in Honour of Salo Rappaport: On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday:
text: In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin.
ref: 2010, S. Giora Shoham, To Test the Limits of Our Endurance:
glosses: To sing or speak formulas and/or rhyming words, often during occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
Derived terms: incantator
contradistinctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contradistinction
contradistinguishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contradistinguish
contradistinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contradistinguish
contradistinguished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contradistinguish
jnana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒəˈnɑː.nə/
Forms: form: jnanas
form: gnana
form: gyan
form: jñāna
Etymology: From Sanskrit ज्ञान (jñāna, “knowledge”).
Senses: examples: text: 1969, Swami Rāmānandasarasvatī, The Hindu Ideal, Sri Ramananda Centenary Memorial Committee, page 291,
The dualists, Sri Vaishnavas in particular, seem to entertain a strong opinion that Bhakti alone is the cause of Moksha, and that Jnana is but a step towards Bhakti.
text: 1986, The Vedanta Kesari, Ramakrishna Math, page 316,
The knower of Atman realizes Him by Jnana Yoga (the path of knowledge).
text: Jnana is a direct knowing of things as they really are.
ref: 2004, M. G. Chitkara, Vedic Religious Tradition, APH Publishing Corporation, page 375:
glosses: The knowledge, acquired through meditation, that one's self (atman) is identical with Ultimate Reality (Brahman).
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Pure awareness that is free of conceptual encumbrances.
Derived terms: jnana marga
jnana yoga
rip current
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rip currents
Etymology: Coined as a more accurate replacement for the earlier term "riptide", as the phenomenon is not related to the tides.
Senses: examples: text: It takes on complicated forms, including longshore currents, which set parallel to the beach, and rip currents, in which water carried shoreward by breaking waves finds its way back to deep water in fast, narrow jets. Longshore and rip current velocities may be as great as 3 knots.
ref: 1988, John V. Noel, Jr., Knight′s Modern Seamanship, page 515:
text: Second, where longshore currents converge, rip currents form, carrying water and sediment outward, away from shore (fig. 2.6).
ref: 1995, David M. Bush, Living With the Puerto Rico Shore, page 20:
text: 1995, University of California at Berkeley (editor), The New Wellness Encyclopedia, page 271,
A break in the wave pattern or discoloration (usually caused by sand) can help you spot rip currents. It you get caught in one, however, don′t struggle, Swim with it, but angle toward the shore or bank.
text: Be careful in winter, when high surf and rip currents make swimming dangerous.
ref: 2010, Jeanette Foster, Frommer′s Kauai, page 168:
glosses: A strong flow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
Synonyms: sense: strong water flow away from shore
word: rip
sense: strong water flow away from shore
word: rip tide
sense: strong water flow away from shore
word: riptide
Related terms: undertow
colorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌləɹeɪt/
Forms: form: colorates
form: colorating
form: colorated
form: colorated
Etymology: From color + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To apply color to something; to make colorful.
Derived terms: concolorate
decolorate
colorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌləɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkʌləɹət/
ipa: /ˈkʌləɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more colorate
form: most colorate
Etymology: From Latin colōrātus, past participle of colōrō (“I color”). Equivalent to color + -ate (adjective-froming suffix)
Senses: examples: text: had the tunicles and humours of the eye , all , or any of them , been colorate , many of the rays proceeding from the viſible object would have been stopped and ſuffocated before they could come to the bottom
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Colored.
Derived terms: concolorate
decolorate
seminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: seminates
form: seminating
form: seminated
form: seminated
Etymology: From Latin seminat-, perfect passive participial stem of seminō (“I plant, sow”). Doublet of semé and semined.
Senses: examples: text: If this Cross were seminated all over with Flowers de lis , shewing upon the fides or edges thereof but the halves of some of them , then it should be blazoned Semie de flowers de lis
ref: 1611, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie:
glosses: To disseminate
hamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hami
Etymology: Latin hāmus (“hook, barb”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hook- or barb-like structure.
cantons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canton
bo trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bo tree
manses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænsɪz/
rhymes: -ænsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of manse
individua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of individuum
Scouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scout
restenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːstɪˈnəʊsiːz/
ipa: /ˌɹistɪˈnoʊsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of restenosis
stenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɛˈnəʊsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of stenosis
stenoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /stɛˈnəʊsiːz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stenose
soccage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of socage.
cibai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Woi cibai, this got nothing to do with NEP. So much hatred to anything "Malay" eh? You TIU NA SENG!!
ref: 2001 August 28, sinkong, “Some Malay primary school teachers have poor attitude !!”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
text: Okay, cibai: Tell it to *me* then that I need not study.
ref: 2004 February 24, Ahmad Sayuthi, “Re: Change our education system”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):
text: "Respect? Respect?!" He snorts. "The killing started because her kind, those Malay cibais, started it." I want to ask what "cibai" means, but from the way he spits it out, I'm guessing it's nothing good.
ref: 2019, Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky, New York: Salaam Reads, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of cheebai (“cunt”).
fœtors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːtɔːz/
ipa: /ˈfiːtɔɹz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fœtor
thralldoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thralldom.
gunplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnˌpleɪ/
Forms: form: gunplays
Etymology: From gun + play.
Senses: examples: text: In the aftermath of the Iraq War, the streets of Baghdad were sometimes filled with gunplay.
text: The one consoling thought was that there might be gunplay before the night was over—Dish had never been in a gun battle but he reasoned that if bullets flew thick and fast Jake might stop one of them, which could change the whole situation.
ref: 1985, Larry McMurty, The Lonesome Dove, Simon & Schuster, published 2010, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Cop action films revelled in scenes of action and violence with the male body at the center engaging in fistfights, kickboxing, car chases, and gunplay.
ref: 2006, Philippa Gates, Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film, State University of New York Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 140:
text: The agents were outnumbered, outgunned, and way off the beaten track, but Becky quickly understood that nobody had planned on any gunplay.
ref: 2010, Terrence E. Poppa, Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin, Cinco Puntos Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: The discharge of firearms, usually with violent intent and in confrontations.
examples: text: My problem with gunplay is that it could lead to very bad habits. They're always loaded, even when they're "not loaded", and if you get used to thinking of them as not loaded you're going to get careless.
ref: 1998 August 5, the wharf rat [username], “Re: ATTENTION, People new to "BDSM"”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
text: The recent fuss about gunplay isn't an ickiness issue but a safety argument.
ref: 1999 October 21, Malcolm McMahon, “Re: A proposal: soc.subculture.bdsm-ykiok?”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
text: When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]
ref: 2009, Quince Mountain, “Cowboy for Christ”, in Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau, editors, Believer, Beware: First-person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A sexual practice involving the use of a (usually unloaded) firearm for physical and mental stimulation.
capitoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitolo
curriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌɹɪəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of currier
road film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road films
Senses: glosses: Synonym of road movie.
synonyms: word: road movie
road picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road pictures
Senses: glosses: Synonym of road movie.
synonyms: word: road movie
action movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action movies
Senses: examples: text: Arnold Schwarzenegger is an iconic star of action movies.
text: Action movies are his favourite genre.
text: It takes a whole lot to turn The Road Warrior into an afterthought. George Miller’s second Mad Max movie, released in 1981, is a total masterpiece, and it’s one of the defining action movies of the ’80s, the golden age of the action movie.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A motion picture whose storyline involves fast-paced activity and conflict, usually including such elements as a heroic protagonist, violent fights, acrobatic stunts, chase scenes, and gunplay.
Synonyms: action film
actioner
Related terms: action star
action film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: action films
Senses: glosses: Synonym of action movie.
synonyms: word: action movie
concretise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concretises
form: concretising
form: concretised
form: concretised
Etymology: From concrete + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of concretize.
actioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actioners
Etymology: From action + -er.
Senses: glosses: An action movie.
headlamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌlæmp/
Forms: form: headlamps
Etymology: From head + lamp.
Senses: examples: text: The automobile headlamp uses either a parabolic reflector or a slight modification of it to obtain a concentrated light beam.
ref: 1940, Ralph A. Richardson, Optics and Wheels, General Motors Corporation, p. 13
text: With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice.
ref: 1942 February, “Notes and News: An Historic American Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:
glosses: An individual headlight, particularly of a motor vehicle.
glosses: A flashlight worn on the head.
high-beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-beams
form: high beam
form: highbeam
Senses: examples: text: Turn off your high-beams - you're blinding the oncoming traffic.
synonyms: word: full-beam
word: upper-beam
word: main beam
word: brights
antonyms: low-beam
dim light
dipped headlight
dimmed headlights
glosses: The setting of an automobile's headlights adjusted to brighten a longer distance in front of the car, than when on the normal (low-beam) setting.
glosses: An erect nipple.
Related terms: someone's headlights are on
capivara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capivaras
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of capybara.
interdependence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdependences
Etymology: From inter- + dependence.
Senses: examples: text: The transmission oil is cooled in a heat exchanger through which the cooling water is circulated, to assist rapid warming of the engine system and to bring engine and transmission into their true interdependence.
ref: 1960 June, “The N.B. Loco. Co. diesel-hydraulic Type "2" locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 345:
text: But today, as electricity creates conditions of extreme interdependence on a global scale, we move swiftly again into an auditory world of simultaneous events and over-all awareness.
ref: 1962, Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, pages 28–29:
text: For those concerned that the interdependence of power and water could lead to higher costs and greater scarcity of both, two energy developments in the last five years offer both good news and bad.
ref: 2015 April 22, Felicity Barringer, “Troubling Interdependency of Water and Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It's less a vision for the wholesale migration of humanity to a new state of being than a quest to transcend all that is human: the body, interdependence, compassion, vulnerability and complexity.
ref: 2019, Douglas Rushkoff, “Survival of the Richest”, in Extinction Rebellion, editor, This Is Not A Drill, London: Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Europe’s cherished conviction that economic interdependence is the best guarantee for peace has turned out to be wrong.
ref: 2022 February 27, Ivan Krastev, “We Are All Living in Vladimir Putin’s World Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The European Economic Community was founded on the principle after the second world war that economic trade and interdependence was the best recipe for peace between France and Germany first, and then between Europe and the rest of the world. Overnight all this became obsolete.
ref: 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, quoting Nicole Gnesotto, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The condition of being interdependent.
self-sufficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + sufficiency.
Senses: examples: text: “For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I never could perceive any thing extraordinary. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 60–61:
glosses: The condition of being self-sufficient.
besmirched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of besmirch
besmirches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besmirch
besmirching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of besmirch
shufti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊf.ti/
ipa: /ˈʃʌf.ti/
rhymes: -ʊfti
rhymes: -ʌfti
Forms: form: shuftis
form: shufty
form: shoofti
Etymology: UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي (šufti, “have you seen?”, literally “you saw”), a conjugation of شَاف (šāf, “to see”).
Senses: examples: text: "Perkins, we are asking you to be that one man. I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti, don't come back. Goodbye, Perkins. God, I wish I was going too."
ref: 1961, Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe (AfterMyth of War):
text: "Caucasus mountains," said the driver. "I think. Let's have a shufti at the map."
ref: 1992, Tom Holt, Tall Stories, Orbit, published 2004, page 276:
text: 2005, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Raincoast Books ; Bloomsbury, page 431,
"When we come face to face with [a ghost] down a dark alley we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?'"
glosses: A brief glance.
Synonyms: glance
Derived terms: shufti kite
shuftis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shufti