Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The common puffin, Fratercula arctica. Montagu.
- n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of Alcidæ, having the bill much as in Fratercula, but the head adorned with a long curly crest on each side; the tufted puffins. L. cirrata is a common species of the North Pacific ocean from California to Kamchatka. See
Fratercula and puffin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A genus of birds including some of the puffins.
WordNet 3.0
- n. puffins.
Examples
“According to La Tempete des Tropiques, several thousand "bana lunda", as the diamond miners are known, have been forced to retreat into the DRC's southern Tembo and Kahungula regions, across the border Cuango river.”
“The hippopotami, however, are not hunted, but snared with lunda, the common tripping-trap with spike-drop, which is placed in the runs of this animal, described by every South African traveller, and generally known as far as the Hametic language is spread.”
“A-lunda) have not the Yao regard for decency, and, although they can seldom or ever be accused of a deliberate intention to expose themselves, the men are relatively indifferent as to whether their nakedness is or is not concealed, though the women are modest and careful in this respect. ”
“: er cum propheta dici - lus: Ab occukis meis lunda me, D6mine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lunda’.
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Your Mission: Find theTraps
List of words that contain the letter string *trap*. Some are obvious and apparent, such as trapezoid, while others are a bit less apparent, such as contrapuntist, ultraphysical, and intraperitoneal.
trapezoid, contrapuntist, wentletrap, allotetraploid, bootstrap, caltrap, unstrap, Trappist, ultraphysical, trapline, Trapt, autotetraploidy and 195 more...
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Angola
Words pertaining to a country who's citizens have suffered grievously.
republica de angola, cabinda, river congo, planalto central, bie plateau, serra môco, zambezi, benguela, luanda, uige, malanje, huambo and 80 more...
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hernesheir From the Wordnik examples: "The hippopotami, however, are not hunted, but snared with lunda, the common tripping-trap with spike-drop..." Dec 16, 2010