Van Wyck Brooks, n.
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Van de Graaff, n.
United States physicist (1901-1967)
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| Robert Van de Graaff |
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Van de Graaff generator, n.
electrical device that produces a high voltage by building up a charge of static electricity
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| Wimshurst machine |
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Vanbrugh, n.
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Vancocin, n.
an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections
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| vancomycin |
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Vancouver, n.
a port city in southwestern British Columbia on an arm of the Pacific Ocean opposite Vancouver Island; Canada's chief Pacific port and third largest city
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a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon
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English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)
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| George Vancouver |
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| Vancouver |
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Vancouver Island, n.
an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America
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Vanda caerulea, n.
famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers
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| blue orchid |
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Vandal, n.
a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455
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Vanderbilt, n.
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
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| Commodore Vanderbilt |
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| Cornelius Vanderbilt |
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Vandyke, n.
Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)
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| Anthony Vandyke |
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| Sir Anthony Vandyke |
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| Van Dyck |
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| Vandyke |
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Vandyke brown, n.
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Vanellus, n.
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Vanern, n.
Vanessa, n.
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Vanessa Bell, n.
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
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| Vanessa Bell |
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| Vanessa Stephen |
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Vanessa Stephen, n.
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
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| Vanessa Bell |
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Vanessa atalanta, n.
of temperate Europe and Asia; having black wings with red and white markings
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| red admiral |
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Vanessa virginiensis, n.
American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots
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| Vanessa virginiensis |
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| painted beauty |
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Vanguards of Conquest, n.
an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells
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| Egyptian Islamic Jihad |
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| Islamic Jihad |
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| al-Jihad |
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"the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981"
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Vangueria, n.
tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit
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| genus Vangueria |
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Vangueria infausta, n.
small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
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| medlar |
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| wild medlar |
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| wild medlar tree |
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Vangueria madagascariensis, n.
shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit
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| Spanish tamarind |
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| Vangueria madagascariensis |
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Vanilla planifolia, n.
a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America
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| Vanilla planifolia |
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| vanilla orchid |
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Vanir, n.
Vannevar Bush, n.
United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)
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| Vannevar Bush |
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Vanua Levu, n.
Vanuatu, n.
a volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980
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| New Hebrides |
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| Republic of Vanuatu |
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| Vanuatu |
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Vanzetti, n.
United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Nicola Sacco was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1888-1927)
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| Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
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| Vanzetti |
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Varanidae, n.
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