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lister
  • n  English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)
  • n  assessor who makes out the tax lists
  • n  moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
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lister plough
  • n  moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
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lister plow
  • n  moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
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listera
  • n  genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem; found in temperate Asia and North America and Europe
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listera convallarioides
  • n  small orchid with two elliptic leaves and a slender raceme of small green flowers; western North America
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listera cordata
  • n  orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland
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listera ovata
  • n  orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia
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listeria meningitis
  • n  an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms
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