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Aroid
- adjective - any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
- relating to a plant of the family Araceae
Aroma
- noun - a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- any property detected by the olfactory system
Aroph
- - A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.
Arose
- verb - come into existence; take on form or shape;
- get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night"
- move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
- originate or come into being; "a question arose"
- result or issue; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"
- rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
Broad
- adjective - (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad southern accent"
- being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full summer"
- British wet lands " the broads"
- broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
- having a distance larger than usual from side to side; wide.
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
- lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"
- not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad
Broca
- noun - French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
Broch
- unknown - a dry-stone circular tower of late Iron Age, with galleries within the thickness of the wall, common in Scotland.
Broil
- noun - be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat"
- cook under a broiler; "broil fish"
- cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
- heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer"