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| foundling |
a child or infant abandoned by unidentified parents and found by someone else. |
| Loch Ness monster |
an unidentified creature or family of plesiosaur-like creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a lake near the city of Inverness in northern Scotland. |
| UFO |
abbreviation of "unidentified flying object." |
| ufology |
the study of photographs and reports of unidentified flying objects, esp. considered as spacecraft from other planets. |
| Unknown Soldier |
(sometimes l.c.) an unidentified soldier killed in war, whose tomb serves as a memorial to all of a nation's unidentified military persons who have died in war. |
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