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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Calendula officinalis in CommonParlance
- definition the common European annual marigold
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Caley pea in CommonParlance
- definition a weak-stemmed winter annual native to Mediterranean region for long established in southern United States; cultivated as a cover and pasture crop
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Calidris canutus in CommonParlance
- definition a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
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Calidris ferruginea in CommonParlance
- definition Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew
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Calidris melanotos in CommonParlance
- definition American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting
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California Personality Inventory in CommonParlance
- definition a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.
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California allspice in CommonParlance
- definition straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers
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California bay tree in CommonParlance
- definition Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
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California beauty in CommonParlance
- definition any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
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California black oak in CommonParlance
- definition large deciduous tree of the Pacific coast having deeply parted bristle-tipped leaves
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California black walnut in CommonParlance
- definition medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts
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California bluebell in CommonParlance
- definition desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes
- definition annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers
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California box elder in CommonParlance
- definition maple of the Pacific coast of the United States; fruits are white when mature
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California buckthorn in CommonParlance
- definition evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits
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California buckwheat in CommonParlance
- definition low-growing shrub with spreading branches and flowers in loose heads; desert regions of western United States (California to Utah)
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California coffee in CommonParlance
- definition evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits
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California condor in CommonParlance
- definition North American condor; chiefly dull black; almost extinct
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California dandelion in CommonParlance
- definition European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears
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California false morel in CommonParlance
- definition a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a thick fluted stalk; found under conifers in California
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California fern in CommonParlance
- definition large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
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California four o'clock in CommonParlance
- definition California four o'clock with purple-red flowers
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California fuchsia in CommonParlance
- definition shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers
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California lady's slipper in CommonParlance
- definition often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
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California laurel in CommonParlance
- definition Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
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California live oak in CommonParlance
- definition highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves