CommonParlance
Seed
Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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common carline thistle in CommonParlance
- definition Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils
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common carotid in CommonParlance
- definition runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries
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common carotid artery in CommonParlance
- definition runs upward in the neck and divides into the external and internal carotid arteries
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common carrier in CommonParlance
- definition a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
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common chickweed in CommonParlance
- definition a common low-growing annual garden weed with small white flowers; cosmopolitan; so-called because it is eaten by chickens
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common chord in CommonParlance
- definition a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones
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common cockscomb in CommonParlance
- definition garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers
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common cold in CommonParlance
- definition a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
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common comfrey in CommonParlance
- definition European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America
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common coral tree in CommonParlance
- definition small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered
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common corn salad in CommonParlance
- definition widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed
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common cotton grass in CommonParlance
- definition having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
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common daisy in CommonParlance
- definition low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers
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common dandelion in CommonParlance
- definition Eurasian plant widely naturalized as a weed in North America; used as salad greens and to make wine
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common denominator in CommonParlance
- definition an integer that is a common multiple of the denominators of two or more fractions
- definition an attribute that is common to all members of a category
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common devil's claw in CommonParlance
- definition annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak
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common divisor in CommonParlance
- definition an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly
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common dogbane in CommonParlance
- definition North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
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common dolphin in CommonParlance
- definition black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water
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common duckweed in CommonParlance
- definition of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia
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common eel in CommonParlance
- definition eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
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common eland in CommonParlance
- definition dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa
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common elder in CommonParlance
- definition a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
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common evening primrose in CommonParlance
- definition a coarse biennial of eastern North America with yellow flowers that open in the evening; naturalized in Europe
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common facial vein in CommonParlance
- definition vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein