kyphosus sectatrix
- n food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
kurta
- n a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama)
kurrajong
- n widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle
kurrat
- n coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized
kurt godel
- n United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978)
kurt vonnegut
- n United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922)
kurt waldheim
- n Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)
kurt weill
- n German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950)
kuru
- n a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
kurus
- n 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey
- n a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
kusan
- n a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon
- n a Penutian language spoken by the Kusan
kussmaul's coma
- n coma that can develop in inadequately treated cases of diabetes mellitus