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imago
  • n  (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood
  • n  an adult insect produced after metamorphosis
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illustration
  • n  artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
  • n  showing by example
  • n  an item of information that is typical of a class or group
  • n  a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand
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illustrator
  • n  an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.)
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illustriousness
  • n  the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
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illyria
  • n  an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived
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illyrian
  • n  a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast
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ilmen
  • n  a lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga
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ilmenite
  • n  a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium
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ilo
  • n  the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor
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ilosone
  • n  an antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gram-negative
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ilya ilich metchnikov
  • n  Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)
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imam
  • n  (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide
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imamu amiri baraka
  • n  United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934)
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