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hibachi
  • n  a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking
  • v  cook over a hibachi grill
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hibbertia
  • n  evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia
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hibbing
  • n  a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range
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hibernation
  • n  the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
  • n  cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
  • n  the act of retiring into inactivity
    he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years
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hibernia
  • n  an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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hibiscus cannabinus
  • n  valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation
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hibiscus elatus
  • n  erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks
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hibiscus esculentus
  • n  tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
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hibiscus farragei
  • n  southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
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hibiscus moschatus
  • n  bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus
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hibiscus moscheutos
  • n  showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers
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hibiscus mutabilis
  • n  Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night; widely cultivated; naturalized in southeastern United States
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