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
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Terms in this context
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Aotus trivirgatus in CommonParlance
- definition nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur
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Apache in CommonParlance
- definition any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma
- definition the language of the Apache
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Apache language in CommonParlance
- definition the language of the Apache
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Apalachicola rosemary in CommonParlance
- definition small shrub of Apalachicola River area in southeastern United States having highly aromatic pinkish flowers; a threatened species
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Apatosaurus excelsus in CommonParlance
- definition huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
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Apatura iris in CommonParlance
- definition large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple
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Apgar score in CommonParlance
- definition an assessment of the physical condition of a newborn infant; involves heart rate and muscle tone and respiratory effort and color and reflex responsiveness
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Aphis fabae in CommonParlance
- definition blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
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Aphis pomi in CommonParlance
- definition bright green aphid; feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves
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Aphriza virgata in CommonParlance
- definition sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America
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Aphrophora saratogensis in CommonParlance
- definition feeds on pines in northern United States
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Apios americana in CommonParlance
- definition a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
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Apios tuberosa in CommonParlance
- definition a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
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Apis mellifera in CommonParlance
- definition social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
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Apis mellifera adansonii in CommonParlance
- definition a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
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Apis mellifera scutellata in CommonParlance
- definition a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
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Apium graveolens in CommonParlance
- definition herb of Europe and temperate Asia
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Apium graveolens dulce in CommonParlance
- definition widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked
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Apium graveolens rapaceum in CommonParlance
- definition grown for its thickened edible aromatic root
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Aplectrum hyemale in CommonParlance
- definition North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers
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Aplodontia rufa in CommonParlance
- definition bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent
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Aplysia punctata in CommonParlance
- definition naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles
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Apocrypha in CommonParlance
- definition 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
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Apocryphal in CommonParlance
- definition of or belonging to the Apocrypha
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Apocynum androsaemifolium in CommonParlance
- definition North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints