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  • 51gardening — /gahrd ning/, n. 1. the act of cultivating or tending a garden. 2. the work or art of a gardener. [1570 80; GARDEN + ING1] * * * Laying out and tending of a garden. Though palatial gardens existed in ancient times, small home gardens became… …

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  • 52Priapus — /pruy ay peuhs/, n. 1. Class. Myth. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. 2. (l.c.) a phallus. * * * Greek god of animal and vegetable fertility. He was represented in a caricature of the human form, grotesquely… …

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  • 53Plastic surgery — The field of surgery concerned with reducing scarring or disfigurement that may occur as a result of accidents, birth defects, or treatment for diseases, such as melanoma. Many plastic surgeons also perform cosmetic surgery that is unrelated to… …

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  • 54Amorphophallus titanum — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …

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  • 55grotesque — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. strange, unnatural, abnormal; bizarre, fantastic, odd; misshapen, distorted. See unconformity, distortion, inelegance, ugliness. Ant., common, normal. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ludicrously… …

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  • 56ugly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. repulsive (see ugliness); disagreeable, unpleasant; mean, hostile, quarrelsome. See unsavoriness, contention. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Ill favored] Syn. unsightly, loathsome, hideous, homely,… …

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  • 57deformed — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. distorted, misshapen, disfigured, crippled, misproportioned, malformed, bowed, cramped, ill proportioned, disjointed, awry, unseemly, ill favored, dwarfed, hunchbacked, humpbacked, warped, misconceived, maimed, mangled …

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  • 58Distortion — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Irregularity of form. < N PARAG:Distortion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 distortion distortion detortion contortion Sgm: N 1 twist twist crookedness &c.(obliquity) 217 Sgm: N 1 grimace grimace Sgm: N 1 deformity …

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  • 59Ugliness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ugliness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ugliness ugliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 deformity deformity inelegance Sgm: N 1 acomia acomia Sgm: N 1 disfigurement disfigurement &c.(blemish) 848 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 60shape — {{11}}shape (n.) O.E. gesceap creation, form, destiny, from root of SHAPE (Cf. shape) (v.)). Meaning contours of the body is attested from late 14c. Meaning condition, state is first recorded 1865, American English. In Middle English, the word… …

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