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.
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Demotic language in CommonParlance
- definition the modern Greek vernacular
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Demotic script in CommonParlance
- definition a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script
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Demulen in CommonParlance
- definition trade name for an oral contraceptive
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Dendranthema grandifloruom in CommonParlance
- definition of China
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Dendroaspis angusticeps in CommonParlance
- definition a highly venomous southern African mamba dreaded because of its quickness and readiness to bite
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Dendroaspis polylepis in CommonParlance
- definition a venomous snake from southern Africa noted for the black interior of its mouth
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Dendrocalamus giganteus in CommonParlance
- definition immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks
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Dendroctonus rufipennis in CommonParlance
- definition small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
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Dendroica auduboni in CommonParlance
- definition common warbler of western North America
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Dendroica coronata in CommonParlance
- definition similar to Audubon's warbler
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Dendroica fusca in CommonParlance
- definition black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat
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Dendroica petechia in CommonParlance
- definition yellow-throated American wood warbler
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Dendroica striata in CommonParlance
- definition North American warbler having a black-and-white head
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Dendroica striate in CommonParlance
- definition North American warbler having a black-and-white head
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Dendroica tigrina in CommonParlance
- definition North American wood warbler; olive green and yellow striped with black
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Denisonia superba in CommonParlance
- definition venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
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Dennstaedtia punctilobula in CommonParlance
- definition fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay
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Dentaria bulbifera in CommonParlance
- definition European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock
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Dentaria diphylla in CommonParlance
- definition North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots
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Deparia acrostichoides in CommonParlance
- definition fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores
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Department of Agriculture in CommonParlance
- definition the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
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Department of Commerce in CommonParlance
- definition the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
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Department of Commerce and Labor in CommonParlance
- definition a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913
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Department of Defense in CommonParlance
- definition the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
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Department of Defense Laboratory System in CommonParlance
- definition a defense laboratory that provides essential services in fundamental science for national security and environmental protection and provides technologies that contribute to industrial competitiveness