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  • 91Riedel thyroiditis — sclerosing thyroiditis a rare chronic type of autoimmune thyroiditis characterized by a proliferating, fibrosing, inflammatory process that involves usually one but sometimes both lobes, with adhesions to the trachea and other adjacent structures …

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  • 92vegetable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Any plant Nouns 1. vegetable kingdom, vegetation, vegetable life; plants, flora, verdure; growth, biome; weed. 2. vegetable, fungus, legume, fruit, nut, seed (see food). 3. tree; acacia, alder, almond,… …

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  • 93wooden — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wood[y], ligneous, xyloid; oaken, mahogany, ash, pine, teak, walnut, etc.; frame, clapboard, shingle[d]; stiff, rigid, in flexible; expressionless, lifeless, unimaginative. See materials,… …

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  • 94xyloid — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wood[y], ligneous. See vegetable …

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  • 95woody — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. woodlike, pithy, Xyloid, ligneous, wooden, wooded …

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  • 96Vegetable — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vegetable >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vegetable vegetable vegetable kingdom Sgm: N 1 flora flora verdure GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 plant plant Sgm: N 2 tree tree shrub bush …

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  • 97collect — [16] Collect comes via French collecter or medieval Latin collēctāre from collēct , the past participial stem of Latin colligere ‘gather together’, a compound verb formed from com ‘together’ and legere ‘gather’ (source also of English elect,… …

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  • 98wooden — a. 1. Made of wood. 2. Woody, ligneous. 3. Awkward, clumsy, ungainly, stiff, rigid, hard, unpliant, unpliable, unplastic …

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  • 99woody — a. 1. Ligneous, wooden. 2. Wooded, timbered, forest covered, forest crowned, covered with woods. 3. Sylvan, shady, bosky, umbrageous, leafy, bowery …

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  • 100wooden — adjective 1) a wooden door Syn: wood, timber, woody; ligneous 2) his wooden posture Syn: stilted, stiff, unnatural, awkward, leaden; dry, flat, stodgy …

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