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Addison’s disease: Definition and part of speech

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Addison’s disease

  1. A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adder: Definition and part of speech

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Adder

  1. n. Same as Sea Adder.
  2. n. One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
  3. n. A serpent.
  4. n. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
  5. n. In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adder’s-tongue: Definition and part of speech

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Adder’s-tongue

  1. n. The yellow dogtooth violet.
  2. n. A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent’s tongue.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.