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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American lime in CommonParlance
- definition large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown
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American liquorice in CommonParlance
- definition North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties
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American lobster in CommonParlance
- definition flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws; caught from Maine to the Carolinas
- definition lobster of Atlantic coast of America
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American lotus in CommonParlance
- definition water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds
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American magpie in CommonParlance
- definition a magpie of Rocky Mountains in North America
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American maidenhair fern in CommonParlance
- definition hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
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American marten in CommonParlance
- definition valued for its fur
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American mastodon in CommonParlance
- definition mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon
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American mastodont in CommonParlance
- definition mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon
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American merganser in CommonParlance
- definition common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander
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American mink in CommonParlance
- definition usually rich dark brown
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American mistletoe in CommonParlance
- definition the traditional mistletoe of Christmas in America: grows on deciduous trees and can severely weaken the host plant
- definition small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees
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American mountain ash in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of mountain ash
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American oil palm in CommonParlance
- definition palm of Central and South America
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American olive in CommonParlance
- definition small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits
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American organ in CommonParlance
- definition a free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows
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American oriole in CommonParlance
- definition American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow
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American parasol in CommonParlance
- definition an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base
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American parsley fern in CommonParlance
- definition rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley
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American pasqueflower in CommonParlance
- definition short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia
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American pennyroyal in CommonParlance
- definition erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine
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American persimmon in CommonParlance
- definition medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe
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American pit bull terrier in CommonParlance
- definition American breed of muscular terriers with a short close-lying stiff coat
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American plaice in CommonParlance
- definition large American food fish
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American plan in CommonParlance
- definition a hotel plan that includes three meals daily