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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.

Propose an assessment

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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  • American foxhound in CommonParlance
    • definition an American breed of foxhounds used for hunting both in packs and individually
  • American frogbit in CommonParlance
    • definition American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches
  • American gallinule in CommonParlance
  • American gentian in CommonParlance
    • definition any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington
  • American germander in CommonParlance
    • definition subshrub with serrate leaves and cream-colored to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America
  • American ginseng in CommonParlance
    • definition North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng
  • American gray birch in CommonParlance
    • definition medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
  • American green toad in CommonParlance
    • definition small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes
  • American grey birch in CommonParlance
    • definition medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree
  • American hackberry in CommonParlance
    • definition large deciduous shade tree of southern United States with small deep purple berries
  • American harvest mouse in CommonParlance
    • definition any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
  • American hazel in CommonParlance
    • definition nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
  • American hellebore in CommonParlance
    • definition North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
  • American holly in CommonParlance
  • American hop in CommonParlance
    • definition native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop
  • American hornbeam in CommonParlance
    • definition tree or large shrub with grey bark and blue-green leaves that turn red-orange in autumn
  • American ivy in CommonParlance
    • definition common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
  • American kestrel in CommonParlance
  • American lady crab in CommonParlance
    • definition brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  • American language in CommonParlance
    • definition the English language as used in the United States
  • American larch in CommonParlance
    • definition medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark
  • American laurel in CommonParlance
    • definition a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers
  • American leishmaniasis in CommonParlance
    • definition a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa
  • American licorice in CommonParlance
    • definition North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties