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TermTypeDefinitionClassificationsUpdated
beat around the bushverbMWEto be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold informationverified
Beats Per MinutenounMWEthe pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 secondsverified
Beauty BushnounMWEChinese deciduous shrub with yellow-throated pinkish flowers and bristly fruitverified
Beauty QuarknounMWEa quark with a charge of -1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of an electronverified
Becket BendnounMWEa hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)verified
Bedding GeraniumnounMWEan upright geranium having scalloped leaves with a broad color zone inside the margin and white or pink or red flowersverified
Bedsitting RoomnounMWEa furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)verified
Bee BalmnounMWEperennial aromatic herb of eastern North America having variously colored tubular flowers in dense showy headsverified
Bee KillernounMWEswift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wingverified
Beech TreenounMWEany of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in bursverified
Beef PlantnounMWESouth American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bractsverified
Beef StroganoffnounMWEsauteed strips of beef and mushrooms in sour cream sauce served with noodlesverified
Beef WellingtonnounMWErare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in puff pastryverified
Beefsteak BegonianounMWErhizomatous begonia with roundish fleshy leaves reddish colored beneathverified
Beefsteak GeraniumnounMWEany of numerous usually rhizomatous hybrid begonias derived from an East Indian plant having rough-textured leaves patterned in silver and bronze and purple and red-brown with inconspicuous flowersverified
Beefsteak PlantnounMWESouth American plant having green to purple or red branches with green to purple ornamental foliage and spikes of insignificant woolly flowers with dry membranous bractsverified
Beer GardennounMWEtavern with an outdoor area (usually resembling a garden) where beer and other alcoholic drinks are servedverified