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noun

Any of a number of fast-moving active lizards with longitudinal markings and a pointed snout.

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Making my way down a trail through rosemary scrub in florida's central sandhills, i surprised a six…
noun

A competition between runners, horses, vehicles, etc. to see which is the fastest in covering a set course.

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Hill started from pole position and won the race
verb

Compete with another or others to see who is fastest at covering a set course or achieving an objective.

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The vet took blood samples from the horses before they raced
phrase

A series of horse races in a particular place on one day

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A day at the races he often has a day at the races., lots of people go to newmarket for the races.,…
noun

A racecourse.

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The largest obstacles to a comprehensive racing bill are the differing interests of greyhound and h…
noun

A racecourse.

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The largest obstacles to a comprehensive racing bill are the differing interests of greyhound and h…
noun

A water channel, especially an artificial one of running water in which fish are reared.

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The most probable cause is that birds swimming in the east fork of the carson river, which flows be…
noun

A water channel, especially an artificial one of running water in which fish are reared.

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The most probable cause is that birds swimming in the east fork of the carson river, which flows be…
noun

A hunting dog which pursues its prey by scent.

noun

Also with capital initial. a light tan colour (originally and chiefly as a shade of face powder).

adjective

Of a light tan colour.

noun

A hunting dog which pursues its prey by scent.

adjective

Characterized by a rachis; of or relating to a rachis.

noun

Pain in the spine or back.

noun

A stem of a plant, especially a grass, bearing flower stalks at short intervals.

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Inflorescences are the terminal toothbrush type, with five to 70 pairs of flowers on a rachis appro…
adjective

Of or relating to the spine; spinal; vertebral.

noun

A rachidian tooth of a gastropod mollusc.

adjective

Designating a radula bearing a median series of single teeth, often flanked by one row of lateral teeth on each side; having such a radula, typical of most neogastropods.

adjective

Designating a radula bearing a median series of single teeth, often flanked by one row of lateral teeth on each side; having such a radula, typical of most neogastropods.

noun

In grasses: the floral axis, i.e. the axis on which the florets are borne within the spikelet. also (in palms): the ultimate flower-bearing axis of the inflorescence.

noun

In grasses: the floral axis, i.e. the axis on which the florets are borne within the spikelet. also (in palms): the ultimate flower-bearing axis of the inflorescence.

noun

Paralysis of spinal nerves or muscles.

noun

Incision into the vertebral canal.

noun

A stem of a plant, especially a grass, bearing flower stalks at short intervals.

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Inflorescences are the terminal toothbrush type, with five to 70 pairs of flowers on a rachis appro…
noun

Defective closure of one or more vertebrae, usually involving the posterior part of the arch and often accompanied by myelocele; spina bifida.

adjective

Used to prevent or cure rickets (= a disease which children without enough vitamin d can suffer from)

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Vitamin d is sometimes said to be the anti-rachitic vitamin., is human milk a more powerful anti-ra…
noun

Old-fashioned medical term for rickets.

adjective

Causing rickets; of or relating to the causation of rickets.

noun

Any of several instruments used to open the vertebral canal (now historical).

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