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.
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Cypripedium parviflorum in CommonParlance
- definition maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
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Cypripedium reginae in CommonParlance
- definition pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
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Cyrenaicism in CommonParlance
- definition (philosophy) The doctrine of Cyrenaics that people should ultimately aim at the pleasure of the present moment, disregarding future pain that could result from it.
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Cyril in CommonParlance
- definition Greek missionary; the invention of the Cyrillic alphabet is attributed to him (826-869)
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Cyrilla racemiflora in CommonParlance
- definition shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage
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Cyrilliaceae in CommonParlance
- definition shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia
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Cyrillic in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or written in the alphabet used for writing Slavic languages
- definition an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)
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Cyrillic alphabet in CommonParlance
- definition an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages)
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Cyrtomium aculeatum in CommonParlance
- definition tropical Old World fern having glossy fronds suggestive of holly; sometimes placed in genus Polystichum
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Cystophora cristata in CommonParlance
- definition medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters
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Cystopteris bulbifera in CommonParlance
- definition North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets
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Cystopteris fragilis in CommonParlance
- definition delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems
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Cystopteris montana in CommonParlance
- definition fern of rocky mountainous areas of hemisphere
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Cytesis proliferus in CommonParlance
- definition shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder
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Cytisus albus in CommonParlance
- definition low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers
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Cytisus multiflorus in CommonParlance
- definition low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers
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Cytisus ramentaceus in CommonParlance
- definition erect shrub having large trifoliate leaves and dense clusters of yellow flowers followed by poisonous seeds; Yugoslavia; sometimes placed in genus Cytisus
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Cytisus scoparius in CommonParlance
- definition deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers
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Czech in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language
- definition a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic
- definition a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia
- definition the Slavic language of Czechs
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Czech language in CommonParlance
- definition the Slavic language of Czechs
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Czech monetary unit in CommonParlance
- definition monetary unit in Czech Republic
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Czechness in CommonParlance
- definition The quality or characteristic of being Czech.
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Czechoslovak in CommonParlance
- definition a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia
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Czechoslovakian in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language
- definition a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia
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c in CommonParlance
- definition being ten more than ninety
- definition the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
- definition the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet