1 maccabees means: an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus
1 samuel means: the first of two books in the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David
10-membered means: of a chemical compound having a ring with ten members
11 november means: the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland
12-tone music means: a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
12-tone system means: a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
15 may organization means: a terrorist organization formed in 1979 by a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine but disbanded in the 1980s when key members left to join a faction of al-Fatah
15 minutes means: a quarter of an hour
17 november means: a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980s
1st baron verulam means: English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
air raid means: an attack by armed planes on a surface target
ball hawk means: a team athlete who is skilled at stealing or catching the ball
bengal tiger means: southern short-haired tiger
bosnia and herzegovina means: a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims
bovine spongiform encephalitis means: a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation
campion means: any plant of the genus Silene
castoroides means: extinct beavers of the Pleistocene; of eastern and southern United States
component means: an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
component means: an abstract part of something
component means: something determined in relation to something that includes it
day lily means: any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day
day lily means: any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers; used as ground cover
firmiana means: small genus of Asian trees or shrubs
genus centaurium means: genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers
laotian monetary unit means: monetary unit in Laos
non-zero means: not involving zero
rydberg constant means: a wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element
scots pine means: medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark
stonewort means: any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits
supply chamber means: a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed
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