| AAA |
abbreviation of "American Automobile Association," an association that provides travel-related discounts and services to its members. |
| AC2 |
abbreviation of "athletic club," a club that provides athletic equipment and sports-related services to its members. |
| acacia |
any of several ornamental trees related to the acacia, such as the locust. [1/2 definitions] |
| additive |
involving, related to, or produced by addition. [1/2 definitions] |
| adoptive |
related as the result of adoption. [1/2 definitions] |
| African violet |
any of several related tropical plants, very popular as houseplants, that have fuzzy dark green leaves and bear violet, pink, or white flowers. |
| agaric |
any of numerous related fungi with gills on the underside of a cap; mushroom. |
| agave |
any of the tropical American plants, such as the century plant, that are related to the amaryllis and have tall, branched clusters of flowers and leaves with spiny edges. |
| agouti |
any of several related nocturnal, burrowing rodents found in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere that are about the size of a rabbit but have short ears and grizzled fur. |
| agribusiness |
large-scale industrial agriculture and related activities such as food-processing, equipment manufacture, and marketing. |
| agrimony |
any of various related plants of the rose family that have compound feathery leaves and bear long clusters of small yellow flowers on spiky stalks, and a prickly fruit. [1/2 definitions] |
| akin |
related by blood; kin. [1/2 definitions] |
| Aleut |
either of two languages related to Eskimo and spoken by such natives. [1/2 definitions] |
| alewife1 |
a small fish, related to the herring and resembling the shad, found in North America in the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. |
| Alger Hiss |
a lawyer and U.S. public official accused in 1948 of having acted as a Communist spy in the 1930s. Convicted in 1950 on counts of perjury related to the investigation, Hiss was sentenced to five years in prison but maintained his innocence until his death (b.1904--d.1996). |
| allied |
related or similar in nature. [1/3 definitions] |
| allopatric |
living in different geographic areas or in isolation, used esp. in reference to closely related species or to different populations of a single species. [1/2 definitions] |
| almond |
a tree of the rose family that is native to warm temperate regions, closely related to the cherry. [1/6 definitions] |
| alpaca |
a species of South American domesticated mammal, closely related to the llama, with long, soft hair. [1/4 definitions] |
| ambulatory |
related to walking. [1/5 definitions] |
| ampicillin |
a synthetic antibiotic related to penicillin, taken orally to fight a variety of bacterial infections. |