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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.

Propose an assessment

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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  • Citrus nobilis in CommonParlance
    • definition large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida
  • Citrus paradisi in CommonParlance
    • definition citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp
  • Citrus reticulata in CommonParlance
    • definition shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
  • Citrus sinensis in CommonParlance
    • definition probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges
  • Citrus tangelo in CommonParlance
    • definition hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida
  • City of God in CommonParlance
  • Civil List in CommonParlance
    • definition a sum of money voted by British Parliament each year for the expenses of the British royal family
  • Civil Rights movement in CommonParlance
    • definition movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
  • Cl in CommonParlance
    • definition a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
  • Cladonia rangiferina in CommonParlance
    • definition an erect greyish branching lichen of Arctic and even some north temperate regions constituting the chief food for reindeer and caribou and sometimes being eaten by humans
  • Cladorhyncus leucocephalum in CommonParlance
    • definition web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings
  • Cladrastis kentukea in CommonParlance
    • definition small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye
  • Cladrastis lutea in CommonParlance
    • definition small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye
  • Claforan in CommonParlance
    • definition a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract
  • Clangula hyemalis in CommonParlance
    • definition a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States
  • Clapp's Favourite in CommonParlance
    • definition Clapp's Favourite is a useful early-season pear, ripening in mid-August.
  • Clark cell in CommonParlance
    • definition a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force
  • Clark standard cell in CommonParlance
    • definition a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force
  • Clark's nutcracker in CommonParlance
    • definition nutcracker of the western United States
  • Classical Greek in CommonParlance
    • definition the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
  • Clatonia lanceolata in CommonParlance
    • definition small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
  • Claviceps purpurea in CommonParlance
    • definition a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
  • Clavicipitaceae in CommonParlance
    • definition any of various mushrooms of the class Ascomycetes
  • Claytonia caroliniana in CommonParlance
    • definition similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America
  • Claytonia virginica in CommonParlance
    • definition small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America