CommonParlance
Seed
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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Anagyris foetida in CommonParlance
- definition shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed
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Ananas comosus in CommonParlance
- definition a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
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Anaphalis margaritacea in CommonParlance
- definition an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
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Anaprox in CommonParlance
- definition a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen) that fights pain and inflammation
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Anas acuta in CommonParlance
- definition long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers
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Anas americana in CommonParlance
- definition a widgeon the male of which has a white crown
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Anas clypeata in CommonParlance
- definition freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill
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Anas crecca in CommonParlance
- definition common teal of Eurasia and North America
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Anas discors in CommonParlance
- definition American teal
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Anas penelope in CommonParlance
- definition freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals
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Anas platyrhynchos in CommonParlance
- definition wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed
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Anas querquedula in CommonParlance
- definition small Eurasian teal
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Anas rubripes in CommonParlance
- definition a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada
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Anasa tristis in CommonParlance
- definition large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family
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Anasazi in CommonParlance
- definition a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
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Anastatica hierochuntica in CommonParlance
- definition small grey Asiatic desert plant bearing minute white flowers that rolls up when dry and expands when moist
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Anatolian in CommonParlance
- definition an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
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Anatolian language in CommonParlance
- definition an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
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Anaxyrus americanus in CommonParlance
- definition common toad of America
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Anaxyrus canorus in CommonParlance
- definition of high Sierra Nevada meadows and forest borders
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Anaxyrus debilis in CommonParlance
- definition small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes
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Anaxyrus speciosus in CommonParlance
- definition nocturnal burrowing toad of mesquite woodland and prairies of the United States southwest
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Anchusa capensis in CommonParlance
- definition anchusa of southern Africa having blue flowers with white throats
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Anchusa officinalis in CommonParlance
- definition perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers
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Anchusa riparia in CommonParlance
- definition anchusa of southern Africa having blue to red-purple flowers