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  • 71cheese — cheese1 /cheez/, n., v., cheesed, cheesing. n. 1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food. 2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder. 3. something of similar shape or… …

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  • 72honey — honeyful, adj. honeyless, adj. honeylike, adj. /hun ee/, n., pl. honeys, adj., v., honeyed or honied, honeying. n. 1. a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food. 2. this… …

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  • 73ice cream — a frozen food containing cream or milk and butterfat, sugar, flavoring, and sometimes eggs. [1735 45] * * * Frozen dairy food. Ice cream is made from cream or butterfat, milk, sugar, and flavourings. Fruit ices (nondairy frozen desserts) were… …

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  • 74wild rice — 1. a tall aquatic grass, Zizania aquatica, of northeastern North America. 2. the grain of this plant, used for food. Also called water oats, water rice. [1740 50] * * * Coarse annual grass (Zizania aquatica) of the family Poaceae (or Gramineae)… …

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  • 75agriculture, origins of — Introduction  the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people. Agriculture has often been conceptualized narrowly, in terms of specific combinations of activities and organisms wet rice production… …

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  • 76Rosales — ▪ plant order Introduction  the rose order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, containing 9 families, 261 genera, and more than 7,700 species. Rosales, which is in the Rosid I group among the core eudicots, is related to other orders with members …

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  • 77Goat cheese — Goat cheese, or chèvre (from the French for goat), is cheese made out of the milk of goats. Contents 1 Prop …

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  • 78ripen — v. (d; intr.) to ripen into (their friendship ripened into love) * * * [ raɪpən] (d; intr.) to ripen into (their friendship ripened into love) …

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  • 79vine — [ vaın ] noun count * 1. ) the plant on which GRAPES grow: GRAPEVINE: vine leaves a field of vines 2. ) any plant with a long thin stem that grows along the ground or up a tree, wall, etc. a ) the long thin stem of a plant that grows in this way… …

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  • 80ripen — [[t]ra͟ɪpən[/t]] ripens, ripening, ripened V ERG When crops ripen or when the sun ripens them, they become ripe. I m waiting for the apples to ripen... [V n] You can ripen the tomatoes on a sunny windowsill for a day or two. [V ed] ...an… …

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