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.
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Amanita phalloides in CommonParlance
- definition extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
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Amanita rubescens in CommonParlance
- definition yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched
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Amanita verna in CommonParlance
- definition fungus similar to Amanita phalloides
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Amaranthus albus in CommonParlance
- definition bushy plant of western United States
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Amaranthus caudatus in CommonParlance
- definition young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal
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Amaranthus cruentus in CommonParlance
- definition tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
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Amaranthus graecizans in CommonParlance
- definition bushy plant of western United States
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Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys in CommonParlance
- definition tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
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Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus in CommonParlance
- definition tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
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Amaranthus hypochondriacus in CommonParlance
- definition leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China
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Amaranthus spinosus in CommonParlance
- definition erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes
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Amaryllis belladonna in CommonParlance
- definition amaryllis of South Africa often cultivated for its fragrant white or rose flowers
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Amati in CommonParlance
- definition a violin made by Nicolo Amati or a member of his family
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Amazon in CommonParlance
- definition (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
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Amazon ant in CommonParlance
- definition small reddish slave-making ant species
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Amberboa moschata in CommonParlance
- definition Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea
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Ambloplites rupestris in CommonParlance
- definition game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
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Amblyrhynchus cristatus in CommonParlance
- definition shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands
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Ambrosia artemisiifolia in CommonParlance
- definition annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally
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Ambrosia psilostachya in CommonParlance
- definition coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico
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Ambrosia trifida in CommonParlance
- definition a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft
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Ambrosian in CommonParlance
- definition of or by or relating to Saint Ambrose
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Ambystoma maculatum in CommonParlance
- definition glossy black North American salamander with yellow spots
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Ambystoma mexicanum in CommonParlance
- definition larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing
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Ambystoma talpoideum in CommonParlance
- definition brownish-black burrowing salamander of southeastern United States