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  • 71The Last Dragon (2004 TV series) — The Last Dragon Dragon s World: A Fantasy Made Real (U.S. title) Title Screen Genre Fantasy / Docudrama Created by Charlie …

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  • 72Dragon Boy (book) — Dragon Boy is a book written by British author Dick King Smith in 1993. It looks at the life of John, a young orphan in the Middle Ages who is adopted by dragons. Plot summary Montague Bunsen Burner is a dragon who is put on a no humans diet by… …

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  • 73Muscina — Adult Muscina stabulans Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …

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  • 74egg — I n. 1) to hatch; incubate; lay eggs 2) to beat (AE), whisk (BE); boil; fry; poach an egg 3) to candle eggs 4) an addled, bad, rotten egg; boiled; devilled; fried; hard boiled; poached; raw; Scotch (BE); scrambled; soft boiled eggs 5) (misc.) a… …

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  • 75succumb — [15] Someone who succumbs to something is etymologically ‘lying down under’ it. The word comes via Old French succomber from Latin succumbere, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub ‘under’ and cumbere ‘lie’. This verbal element also produced …

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  • 76brood — {{11}}brood (n.) O.E. brod brood, fetus, hatchling, from P.Gmc. *brod (Cf. M.Du. broet, O.H.G. bruot, Ger. Brut brood ), lit. that which is hatched by heat, from *bro to warm, heat, from PIE *bhre burn, heat, incubate, from root *bhreue …

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  • 77incubator — (n.) apparatus for hatching eggs by artificial heat, 1845, from INCUBATE (Cf. incubate) + OR (Cf. or) …

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  • 78incubus — (n.) c.1200, from L.L. (Augustine), from L. incubo nightmare, one who lies down on (the sleeper), from incubare to lie upon (see INCUBATE (Cf. incubate)). Plural is incubi. In the Middle Ages their existence was recognized by law …

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  • 79succumb — [15] Someone who succumbs to something is etymologically ‘lying down under’ it. The word comes via Old French succomber from Latin succumbere, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub ‘under’ and cumbere ‘lie’. This verbal element also produced …

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  • 80Apogonidae — noun bright colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth • Syn: ↑family Apogonidae • Hypernyms: ↑fish family • Member Holonyms: ↑Perciformes, ↑order Perciformes, ↑Percomorphi, ↑ …

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