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- adj. Not indigenous; foreign.
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Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
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Logolepsy
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cicatrix
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Zoological Terms
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Physiological Terms
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rememberers
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____JUICEBOX's list
A rather grandiloquent list of pretty words. :D
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biocon Heterochthonous means originating in or derived from another organism (pathology) Oxford English Dictionary. Aug 26, 2011