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1: a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico 2: the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Nahuatl people

1: a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC 2: an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh [syn: {Book of Nahum}]

1: submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water [syn: {water nymph}] 2: (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains [also: {na...

1: monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers [syn: {Naiadaceae}, {family Naiadaceae}, {Najadaceae}, {family Najadaceae}]

1: monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers [syn: {family Naiadaceae}, {Najadaceae}, {family Najadaceae}, {naiad family}]

1: an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants [syn: {order Naiadales}, {Alismales}, {order Alismales}]

{naiad}

1: applied to a fish depicted horizontally [syn: {swimming}]

1: sole genus of the family Naiadaceae [syn: {genus Naias}, {Najas}, {genus Najas}]

1: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simpl...

1: a Dravidian language spoken in south central India

1: horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits 2: a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener 3: a former unit of length for cloth equa...

1: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" [syn: {nail}, {peg}] 2: define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game" [syn: {pin down}, {peg down}, {narrow down...

1: a cosmetic lacquer that dries quickly and that is applied to the nails to color them or make them shiny [syn: {nail polish}, {nail varnish}]

1: a hole left after a nail is removed

1: a cosmetic lacquer that dries quickly and that is applied to the nails to color them or make them shiny [syn: {nail enamel}, {nail varnish}]

1: a cosmetic lacquer that dries quickly and that is applied to the nails to color them or make them shiny [syn: {nail polish}, {nail enamel}]

1: (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense [syn: {cliff-hanging}, {suspenseful}, {suspensive}]

1: small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail [syn: {nail-tailed wallaby}]

1: small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail [syn: {nail-tailed kangaroo}]

1: a brush used to clean a person's fingernails

1: a worker who attaches something by nailing it

1: a small flat file for shaping the nails

1: something resembling the head of a nail that is used as an ornamental device 2: flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point

1: tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asi...

1: a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies

1: the basic unit of money in Nigeria

1: the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris [syn: {capital of Kenya}]

1: United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939) [syn: {James Naismith}]

1: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simpl...

1: a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists [syn: {outsider art}, {self-taught art}, {vernacular art}, {primitive art}]

1: (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical object continue to exist when not perceived [syn: {realism}]

1: in a naive manner; "he believed, naively, that she would leave him her money"

1: lack of sophistication or worldliness [syn: {naivete}, {naivety}] [ant: {sophistication}]

1: lack of sophistication or worldliness [syn: {naivety}, {naiveness}] [ant: {sophistication}]

1: lack of sophistication or worldliness [syn: {naivete}, {naiveness}] [ant: {sophistication}]

1: cobras [syn: {genus Naja}]

1: cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death [syn: {asp}, {Egyptian cobra}]

1: large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja [syn: {hamadryad}, {king cobra}, {Ophiophagus hannan}]

1: of tropical Africa and Asia [syn: {Indian cobra}]

1: aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa; rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness [syn: {black-necked cobra}, {spitting cobra}]

1: monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers [syn: {Naiadaceae}, {family Naiadaceae}, {family Najadaceae}, {naiad family}]

1: sole genus of the family Naiadaceae [syn: {Naias}, {genus Naias}, {genus Najas}]

1: a central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula; formely an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [syn: {Nejd}]

1: completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model" [syn: {bare}, {au naturel(p)}, {nude}] 2: having no protecting or concealing cover; "naked to mine enemies"- Shakespea...

1: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: {bare-assed}, {bare-ass}, {in the altogether}, {in the buff}, {in the raw}, {raw}, {peeled}, {stark naked}]

1: as naked as at birth [syn: {mother-naked}, {naked as the day you were born}, {in one's birthday suit}, {in your birthday suit}]

1: as naked as at birth [syn: {mother-naked}, {naked as the day one was born}, {in one's birthday suit}, {in your birthday suit}]

1: the eye unaided by any optical instrument that alters the power of vision or alters the apparent size or distance of objects; "it is not safe to look directly at the sun with the naked eye"

1: bulbous autumn-flowering herb with white, purple or lavender-and-white flowers; native to western and central Europe [syn: {autumn crocus}, {meadow saffron}, {Colchicum autumnale}] 2: amaryllis of ...

1: fetal-looking colonial rodent of east Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites

1: a put or call option for which the seller or buyer has no underlying security position

1: in an exposed manner; without protection or defense; "they were attacked as they huddled nakedly on the bare hill" 2: without clothing; "Henriette saw the weaving figure of an Apache warrior reel n...

1: the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind [syn: {nudity}, {nudeness}]

1: any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood 2: tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and ar...

1: a city in western Kenya; commercial center of an agricultural region

1: a city in southwestern Russia in a valley of the Caucasus Mountains; an industrial center and health resort

1: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders [syn: {fenoprofen}, {fenoprofen calcium}]

1: antibacterial agent used especially to treat genitourinary infections [syn: {NegGram}]

1: a narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine) [syn: {nalorphine}]