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21domestic animal — noun any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑domesticated animal • Hypernyms: ↑animal, ↑animate being, ↑beast, ↑brute, ↑creature, ↑ …
22European wildcat — noun bushy tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat • Syn: ↑catamountain, ↑Felis silvestris • Hypernyms: ↑wildcat • Member Holonyms: ↑Felis, ↑genus Felis * * …
23Finno-Ugrian — noun a family of Uralic languages indigenous to Scandinavia and Hungary and Russia and western Siberia (prior to the Slavic expansion into those regions) • Syn: ↑Finno Ugric • Hypernyms: ↑Uralic, ↑Uralic language • Hyponyms: ↑Fennic, ↑Finnic, ↑ …
24Franco-American — noun an American who was born in France or whose ancestors were French • Hypernyms: ↑American * * * ¦fraŋ(ˌ)kōˌ noun Usage: capitalized F&A Etymology: Franco + American : an American of French or especially French Canadian descent • franco… …
25kaffir cat — noun widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor • Syn: ↑caffer cat, ↑Felis ocreata • Hypernyms: ↑wildcat • Member Holonyms: ↑Felis, ↑genus Felis * * * noun …
26Levant cotton — noun Old World annual having heart shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short staple cottons • Syn: ↑Gossypium herbaceum • Hypernyms: ↑cotton, ↑cotton plant * * * noun… …
27lobe-finned fish — noun any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form • Syn: ↑crossopterygian, ↑lobefin • Hypernyms: ↑bony fish • Hyponyms: ↑coelacanth, ↑Latimeria chalumnae …
28Therapsida — noun extinct mammal like reptiles found inhabiting all continents from the mid Permian to late Triassic • Syn: ↑order Therapsida • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Synapsida, ↑subclass Synapsida • …
29celtic fringe — noun Usage: usually capitalized C : the portion of the population of the British Isles which is of Celtic origin or the native land of such people * * * the ˌCeltic ˈfringe 7 [Celtic fringe] noun …
30Anasazi — noun (plural Anasazi) Etymology: Navajo anaasází, literally, enemy ancestors Date: 1938 a prehistoric American Indian inhabitant of the canyons of northern Arizona and New Mexico and southwestern Colorado …
