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PAREIRA
- unknown - Pareira (Chondrodendron tomentosum) is a plant. The root is sometimes used to make medicine.
It is the source of curare, Curare is a common name for various alkaloid arrow poisons originating from plant extracts.
Abacinating
- verb - blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes; "The prisoners were abacinated by their captors"
Abacination
- - The act of abacinating.
Abecedarian
- adjective - a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
- a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
- alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
Abecedarius
- noun - a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order
Aberrancies
- noun - a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Ablactating
- verb - gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"; "The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle"
Ablactation
- noun - the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
- the cessation of lactation
Able-Bodied
- adjective - having a strong healthy body; "an able seaman"; "every able-bodied young man served in the army"
Able-Bodism
- noun - discrimination in favor of the able-bodied