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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Allhallows in CommonParlance
- definition a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835
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Allhallows Eve in CommonParlance
- definition the evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people
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Allhallowtide in CommonParlance
- definition the season of All Saints' Day
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Alliaria officinalis in CommonParlance
- definition European herb that smells like garlic
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Allied in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War II
- definition of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I
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Allied Command Atlantic in CommonParlance
- definition a major strategic headquarters of NATO located in the United States; is under the authority of the North Atlantic Council
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Allied Command Europe in CommonParlance
- definition a major strategic headquarters of NATO; safeguards an area extending from Norway to Turkey
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Allies in CommonParlance
- definition the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945
- definition in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers
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Alligator mississipiensis in CommonParlance
- definition large alligator of the southeastern United States
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Alligator sinensis in CommonParlance
- definition small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits
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Allionia incarnata in CommonParlance
- definition trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico
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Allium acuminatum in CommonParlance
- definition a common North American wild onion with a strong onion odor and an umbel of pink flowers atop a leafless stalk; British Columbia to California and Arizona and east to Wyoming and Colorado
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Allium ampeloprasum in CommonParlance
- definition coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized
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Allium ascalonicum in CommonParlance
- definition type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
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Allium canadense in CommonParlance
- definition North American bulbous plant
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Allium carinatum in CommonParlance
- definition Eurasian bulbous plant
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Allium cepa in CommonParlance
- definition bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
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Allium cepa aggregatum in CommonParlance
- definition type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
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Allium cepa viviparum in CommonParlance
- definition type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers
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Allium cernuum in CommonParlance
- definition widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers
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Allium fistulosum in CommonParlance
- definition Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions
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Allium haematochiton in CommonParlance
- definition onion with white to deep red tunic; California
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Allium neopolitanum in CommonParlance
- definition European onion with white flowers
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Allium paradoxum in CommonParlance
- definition leek producing bulbils instead of flowers; Russia and Iran
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Allium porrum in CommonParlance
- definition plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum