an ash of the western coast of North America
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Sorbus sitchensis

Western mountain ash

birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
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Betula fontinalis

Western birch

Western paper birch

mountain birch

swamp birch

water birch

of western North America
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Anemone occidentalis

Pulsatilla occidentalis

Western pasqueflower

widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies
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Crotalus viridis

Western rattlesnake

prairie rattler

prairie rattlesnake

yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics
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Thamnophis proximus

Western ribbon snake

an ornamented saddle used by cowboys; has a high horn to hold the lariat
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Western saddle

stock saddle

dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit
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Prunus besseyi

Rocky Mountains cherry

Western sand cherry

a variety of aster
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Western silvery aster

assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western civilization
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Westernisation

Westernization

assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western civilization
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Westernisation

Westernization

United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914)
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George Westinghouse

Westinghouse

a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey
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City of Westminster

Westminster

a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery
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Westminster Abbey

sample sentences

"Westminster Abbey is the scene of the coronations of almost all English monarchs"
"Distinguished English subjects are buried in Westminster Abbey"

United States photographer(1886-1958)
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Edward Weston

Weston

a standard voltaic cell (trademark Weston)
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Weston cell

cadmium cell

United States novelist (1862-1937)
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Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

Edith Wharton

Wharton

American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)
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Phillis Wheatley

Wheatley

English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875)
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Sir Charles Wheatstone

Wheatstone

a bridge used to measure resistances
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Wheatstone bridge

Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976)
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler

Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler

Wheeler

a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains
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Wheeler Peak

a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river
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Wheeling

a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
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Whig

a supporter of the American Revolution
<noun.person>

Whig

a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
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Whig

a former political party in the United States; formed in 1834 in opposition to the Democratic Party; advocated a loose interpretation of the Constitution and high protective tariffs
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Whig Party

wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico
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Penstemon whippleanus

Whipple's penstemon

thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1941
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Whirlaway

United States painter (1834-1903)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Whistler

the day after Whitmonday
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Whit-Tuesday

Whitsun Tuesday

a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
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White

White River

a Caucasian
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Caucasian

White

White person

United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
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Andrew D. White

Andrew Dickson White

White

United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
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E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White

White

United States architect (1853-1906)
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Stanford White

White

United States political journalist (1915-1986)
<noun.person>

T. H. White

Theodore Harold White

White

Australian writer (1912-1990)
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Patrick Victor Martindale White

Patrick White

White

United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
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Edward D. White

Edward Douglas White Jr.

Edward White

White

a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
<noun.person>

Carmelite

White Friar