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1: likely to fail or be inaccurate; "everyone is fallible to some degree" [ant: {infallible}] 2: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn:...

1: suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car" [ant: {standing}] 2: decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature" 3: becoming lower ...

1: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: {slump}, {slack}, {drop-off...

1: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: {rupture}, {breach}, {break}, {severance}, {rift}]

1: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: {slump}, {slack}, {drop-off...

1: either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus [syn: {uterine tube}, {oviduct}]

1: French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911) [syn: {Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot}]

1: a congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of t...

1: a congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of t...

1: the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion [syn: {radioactive dust}] 2: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the acc...

1: a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb

1: left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland" 2: undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market" n : cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing se...

1: small Eurasian deer [syn: {Dama dama}]

1: a steep descent of the water of a river [syn: {waterfall}]

1: not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [ant: {true}] 2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of t...

1: a warning that is given about something that fails to occur

1: plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho [syn: {fringe cups}, {Tellima...

1: a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers

1: straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers [syn: {fool's huckleberry}, {Menziesia ferruginea}]

1: Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America [syn: {wild madder}, {white madder}, {white bedstraw}, {infant's-breath}, {Galium mollugo}]

1: fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys [syn: {pines...

1: a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning [syn: {fallacy}]

1: twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {bittersweet}, {American bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {staff vine}, {waxwork}, {Celastrus s...

1: resembles Pteridium aquilinum; of Queensland, Australia [syn: {Culcita dubia}]

1: deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico [syn: {chittamwood}, {chittimwood}, {shittimwood}, {black haw}, {Bumelia lanuginosa}]

1: tall perennial of the eastern United States having large basal leaves and white summer flowers [syn: {Trautvetteria carolinensis}]

1: a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus [syn: {epicalyx}, {calycle}, {calyculus}]

1: any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas

1: agaric often confused with the death cup [syn: {Amanita mappa}]

1: evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans [syn: {China tree}, {jaboncillo}, {chinaberry}, {Sapindus saponaria}]

1: North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers [syn: {false dragonhead}, {obedient plant}, {Physostegia virginiana}]

1: North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers [syn: {false dragon head}, {obedient plant}, {Physostegia virginiana}]

1: a mask worn as part of a masquerade costume

1: sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia [syn: {Aureolaria virginica}, {Gerardi...

1: a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part [syn: {pome}]

1: pungent Old World wild onion [syn: {crow garlic}, {field garlic}, {stag's garlic}, {wild garlic}, {Allium vineale}]

1: crocodile of southeast Asia similar to but smaller than the gavial [syn: {Tomistoma schlegeli}]

1: the opening between the false vocal folds [syn: {rima vestibuli}, {rima respiratoria}, {glottis spuria}]

1: North American astilbe with panicles of creamy white flowers [syn: {Astilbe biternata}]

1: any of several North American perennial herbs with hairy foliage and small yellowish or greenish flowers

1: a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment [syn: {hairpiece}, {postiche}]

1: North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers [syn: {golden heather}, {Hudsonia ericoides}]

1: perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes [syn: {hellebore}]

1: (law) confinement without legal authority

1: any of several plants of the genus Baptisia [syn: {wild indigo}] 2: dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense raceme...

1: painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency [syn: {Braxton-Hicks contraction}]

1: small white-flowered plant of western Europe to Japan [syn: {Maianthemum bifolium}] 2: small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white...

1: western United States bushy herb having yellow pealike flowers [syn: {golden pea}, {yellow pea}, {Thermopsis macrophylla}]

1: genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits [syn: {globe mallow}] 2: an American plant of the genus Malvastrum

1: any of various fungi of the family Peronosporaceae parasitic on e.g. grapes and potatoes and melons [syn: {downy mildew}]

1: American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe [syn: {mistletoe}]

1: plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana [syn: {false mitrewort}, {Tiarella unifoliata}] 2: stolonif...

1: plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana [syn: {false miterwort}, {Tiarella unifoliata}] 2: stolonif...

1: a fungus of the family Helvellaceae

1: a name that has been assumed temporarily [syn: {alias}, {assumed name}]

1: any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs [syn: {bog hemp}]

1: coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage [syn: {tall oat grass}, {tall meadow grass}, ...

1: weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves [syn: {chaffweed}, {bastard pimpernel}]

1: physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant [syn: {pseudocyesis}]

1: (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation [syn: {false pretense}]