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arundinaceous
  • a  of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria
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aryan
  • n  (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)
  • n  a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
  • a  of or relating to the former Indo-European people
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asat
  • a  of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit
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ascendant
  • n  position or state of being dominant or in control
    that idea was in the ascendant
  • n  someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
  • s  tending or directed upward
    rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
  • s  most powerful or important or influential
    the economically ascendant class
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ascendent
  • n  position or state of being dominant or in control
  • n  someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
  • s  tending or directed upward
  • s  most powerful or important or influential
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ascending
  • n  the act of changing location in an upward direction
  • v  travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
  • v  go back in order of genealogical succession
  • v  become king or queen
  • v  appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils
  • v  go along towards (a river's) source
  • v  slope upwards
  • v  come up, of celestial bodies
  • v  move to a better position in life or to a better job
  • a  moving or going or growing upward
    the ascending plane
    the ascending staircase
    the ascending stems of chickweed
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