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Ainu |
a member of an aboriginal people native to the northernmost islands of Japan, noted for their ample body hair. [1/3 definitions] |
checkered |
noted for frequent changes and wide swings in fortune. [1/3 definitions] |
crow1 |
any of a number of shiny black birds noted for their shrill, harsh calls and for their scavenging. |
dervish |
someone who belongs to any of several Muslim religious groups noted for their ascetic practices and for dancing and whirling in religious ecstasy. |
erratum |
an error in printing, often noted and corrected in an addendum that is printed afterwards and inserted in new printings of the book or article. |
lemming |
any of various mouselike, short-tailed, arctic rodents, esp. the European species which is noted for mass migrations that periodically result in large numbers drowning at sea. |
lion |
a person who is noted for strength and courage, or for social, professional, or political prominence. [1/3 definitions] |
nightingale |
any of several European thrushes that are noted for melodious singing. |
nimrod |
(cap.) in the Bible, a noted hunter descended from Noah. [1/2 definitions] |
observable |
worthy of being observed or noted. [1/2 definitions] |
pandour |
an eighteenth-century Croatian soldier noted for extreme brutality and cruelty. [1/2 definitions] |
Paul Laurence Dunbar |
U.S. poet and novelist, noted for his portrayals of African American life in the South (b.1872--d.1906). |
record |
a collection of information that has been noted down over time and stored. [1/15 definitions] |
sightseer |
a tourist who visits sights of noted interest. |
Sistine Chapel |
the pope's chapel in the Vatican at Rome, noted for its frescoes by Michelangelo and others. |
skunk |
a small, meat-eating North American mammal with black fur, a bushy tail, and a broad white stripe down its back, noted for the foul smell of the fluid it ejects when alarmed. [1/3 definitions] |
Spanish Inquisition |
a Spanish tribunal of about 1480 to 1830, founded to combat heresy and noted for its extreme cruelty. |
stephanotis |
any of various woody climbing plants, noted for their white, sweet-scented blossoms. |
storm trooper |
a member of the German Nazi militia, noted for its brutality and violence; Brownshirt. |
Tibet |
an autonomous region of southwestern China on a high plateau north of the Himalayas, noted as a center for Buddhism since the 7th century. |
tragedian |
an actor noted for his or her performances in tragedies. [1/2 definitions] |
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