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Obeche
- noun - large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
- the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering
Oblate
- adjective - a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
- having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
Oblige
- verb - bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
- force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"
- provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him"
Oblite
- - Indistinct; slurred over.
Obtuse
- adjective - (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"