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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bristlecone pine in CommonParlance
- definition small slow-growing upland pine of western United States (Rocky Mountains) having dense branches with fissured rust-brown bark and short needles in bunches of 5 and thorn-tipped cone scales; among the oldest living things some over 4500 years old
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bristled in CommonParlance
- definition having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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bristlegrass in CommonParlance
- definition grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet
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bristlelike in CommonParlance
- definition resembling a bristle
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bristletail in CommonParlance
- definition small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail
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bristliness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
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bristly in CommonParlance
- definition very irritable
- definition having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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bristly locust in CommonParlance
- definition large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers
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bristly oxtongue in CommonParlance
- definition widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States
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bristly sarsaparilla in CommonParlance
- definition bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
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bristly sarsparilla in CommonParlance
- definition bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
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brit in CommonParlance
- definition the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish
- definition minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
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britches in CommonParlance
- definition (used in the plural) informal term for breeches
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britt in CommonParlance
- definition the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish
- definition minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
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brittle in CommonParlance
- definition having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
- definition lacking warmth and generosity of spirit
- definition (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
- definition caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
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brittle bladder fern in CommonParlance
- definition delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems
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brittle bush in CommonParlance
- definition fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
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brittle fern in CommonParlance
- definition delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems
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brittle maidenhair in CommonParlance
- definition tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated
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brittle maidenhair fern in CommonParlance
- definition tropical American fern with broad pinnae; widely cultivated
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brittle star in CommonParlance
- definition an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc
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brittle willow in CommonParlance
- definition large willow tree with stiff branches that are easily broken
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brittle-star in CommonParlance
- definition an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc
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brittlebush in CommonParlance
- definition fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
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brittleness in CommonParlance
- definition firm but easily broken