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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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kweek
  • n  trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
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kwela
  • n  a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments
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kwell
  • n  a preparation of lindane (trade name Kwell) that is used to kill lice and itch mites; available in cream or shampoo
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ky
  • n  a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses
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kyanite
  • n  a grey or greenish-blue mineral consisting of aluminum silicate in crystalline form; occurs in metaphoric rock, used as a refractory
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kylie
  • n  an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex
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kylix
  • n  a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece
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kymograph
  • n  scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure)
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kyo-chiku
  • n  immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks
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kyoto
  • n  a city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan
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