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lady-in-waiting
  • n  a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess
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kyphosus sectatrix
  • n  food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
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kudzu vine
  • n  fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
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kt
  • n  the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
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ku-chiku
  • n  large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere
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ku klux klan
  • n  a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
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kuala lumpur
  • n  the largest city and former capital of Malaysia until 2005
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kuan yin
  • n  (Buddhism) a female Bodhisattva; often called goddess of mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon
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kuangchou
  • n  a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
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kubla khan
  • n  Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294)
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kublai kaan
  • n  Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294)
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kublai khan
  • n  Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294)
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