CommonParlance
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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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DiaBeta in CommonParlance
- definition an oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas
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Dialeurodes citri in CommonParlance
- definition whitefly that attacks citrus trees
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Dianthus barbatus in CommonParlance
- definition Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers
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Dianthus caryophyllus in CommonParlance
- definition Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
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Dianthus chinensis in CommonParlance
- definition Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual
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Dianthus chinensis heddewigii in CommonParlance
- definition a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals
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Dianthus deltoides in CommonParlance
- definition low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center
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Dianthus gratianopolitanus in CommonParlance
- definition mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers
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Dianthus latifolius in CommonParlance
- definition much-branched pink with flowers in clusters; closely related to sweet William
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Dianthus plumarius in CommonParlance
- definition European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers
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Dianthus superbus in CommonParlance
- definition Eurasian perennial pink having fragrant lilac or rose flowers with deeply fringed margins
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Diapheromera femorata in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of stick insect
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Diapsida in CommonParlance
- definition used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria
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Diaspora in CommonParlance
- definition the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
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Dicamptodon ensatus in CommonParlance
- definition large (to 7 inches) salamander of western North America
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Dicentra canadensis in CommonParlance
- definition American plant with cream-colored flowers and tuberous roots resembling kernels of corn
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Dicentra cucullaria in CommonParlance
- definition delicate spring-flowering plant of the eastern United States having white flowers with double spurs
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Dicentra spectabilis in CommonParlance
- definition garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers
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Diceros bicornis in CommonParlance
- definition African rhino; in danger of extinction
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Diceros simus in CommonParlance
- definition large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros
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Dichondra micrantha in CommonParlance
- definition a creeping perennial herb with hairy stems and orbicular to reniform leaves and small white to greenish flowers; used as a grass substitute in warm regions
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Dick test in CommonParlance
- definition a skin test to determine your susceptibility to scarlet fever
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Dickensian in CommonParlance
- definition of or like the novels of Charles Dickens (especially with regard to poor social and economic conditions)
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Dicksonia antarctica in CommonParlance
- definition of Australia and Tasmania; often cultivated; hardy in cool climates
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Dicrostonyx hudsonius in CommonParlance
- definition of northern Canada