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a diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle (the universal set); elements that are common to more than one set are represented by intersections of the circles
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Venn diagram |
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Venn's diagram |
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a diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle (the universal set); elements that are common to more than one set are represented by intersections of the circles
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Venn diagram |
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Venn's diagram |
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United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
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Craig Ventner |
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J. Craig Ventner |
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Ventner |
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a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects are tachycardia and shakiness
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Proventil |
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Ventolin |
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albuterol |
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a short tube inserted into a pipeline and used to measure the quantity of a liquid that is flowing in the pipeline
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Venturi tube |
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type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
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Venus |
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genus Venus |
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the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'
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Venus |
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sample sentences
"before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
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delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
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Adiantum capillus-veneris |
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Venus maidenhair |
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Venus'-hair fern |
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Venushair |
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common maidenhair |
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southern maidenhair |
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an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
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Mercenaria mercenaria |
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Venus mercenaria |
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hard clam |
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hard-shell clam |
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quahaug |
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quahog |
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round clam |
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any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
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Venus' slipper |
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Venus's shoe |
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Venus's slipper |
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delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
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Adiantum capillus-veneris |
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Venus maidenhair |
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Venus'-hair fern |
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Venushair |
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common maidenhair |
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southern maidenhair |
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a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
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Cupid's disease |
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Cupid's itch |
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STD |
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VD |
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Venus's curse |
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dose |
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sexually transmitted disease |
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social disease |
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venereal disease |
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venereal infection |
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a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia
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Venus's flower basket |
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carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
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Dionaea muscipula |
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Venus's flytrap |
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Venus's flytraps |
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carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
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<noun.plant>
Dionaea muscipula |
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Venus's flytrap |
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Venus's flytraps |
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ctenophore having a ribbon-shaped iridescent gelatinous body
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Cestum veneris |
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Venus's girdle |
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any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
<noun.plant>
<noun.plant>
Venus' slipper |
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Venus's shoe |
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Venus's slipper |
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any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
<noun.plant>
<noun.plant>
Venus' slipper |
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Venus's shoe |
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Venus's slipper |
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delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
<noun.plant>
<noun.plant>
Adiantum capillus-veneris |
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Venus maidenhair |
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Venus'-hair fern |
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Venushair |
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common maidenhair |
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southern maidenhair |
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a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae
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Veratrum |
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genus Veratrum |
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North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
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American hellebore |
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Indian poke |
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Veratrum viride |
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bugbane |
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white hellebore |
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genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves
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Verbascum |
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genus Verbascum |
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European mullein with smooth leaves and large yellow or purplish flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America
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<noun.plant>
Verbascum blattaria |
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moth mullein |
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densely hairy Eurasian herb with racemose white flowers; naturalized in North America
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<noun.plant>
Verbascum lychnitis |
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white mullein |
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