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centipede collapse: chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the foremost being modified into poison fangs

sculptor collapse: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus; an artist who creates sculptures

beetle collapse: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings; jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"; beat with a beetle; fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"

siren collapse: eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills; an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning; a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound; a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; "Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song"

lay figure collapse: dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body

rudiment collapse: the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac"; the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry"

eolith collapse: a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools

plank collapse: an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party; cook and serve on a plank; "Planked vegetable"; "Planked shad"; cover with planks; "The streets were planked"; set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"

slat collapse: a thin strip (wood or metal); close the slats of (windows); equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"

lath collapse: a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework

mason collapse: a craftsman who works with stone or brick; English writer (1865-1948); English film actor (1909-1984); American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792)

statuary collapse: statues collectively; of or relating to or suitable for statues

wood pulp collapse: wood that has been ground to a pulp; used in making cellulose products (as rayon or paper)

fagot collapse: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together; offensive terms for an openly homosexual man

carving collapse: removing parts to create a desired shape; a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape

forester collapse: someone trained in forestry; English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)

germ collapse: a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

tick collapse: any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals; a light mattress; a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"; sew; "tick a mattress"; make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

larva collapse: the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

drowse collapse: be on the verge of sleeping; "The students were drowsing in the 8 AM class"

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