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| arum |
any of a family of plants, such as jack-in-the-pulpit, with arrow-shaped leaves and bearing a flower, at the tip of a long spike, that is enclosed by a hoodlike leaf. [1/2 definitions] |
| cuckoopint |
a European arum similar to the jack-in-the-pulpit. |
| face card |
any king, queen, or jack in a regular deck of playing cards. |
| jack |
to lift (something) using or as if using a jack (usu. fol. by up). [1/8 definitions] |
| Jackie Robinson |
born Jack Roosevelt Robinson, U.S. professional baseball player who in 1947 became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball(b.1919--d.1972). |
| jack mackerel |
a mackerellike food fish of the jack family that is found in Pacific coastal waters. |
| jackscrew |
a jack in which the lifting surface is threaded on and operated by a vertical screw. |
| knave |
in a deck of cards, a jack. [1/2 definitions] |
| screw |
a rod or bolt carrying a helical thread to engage a threaded hole, used as a fastener or as a device to apply mechanical energy, as to tighten a clamp or lift a jack. [1/17 definitions] |
| yellowtail |
any of several large edible jack fishes, esp. one of the Pacific. [1/2 definitions] |
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