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  • 41heart — [härt] n. [ME herte < OE heorte, akin to Ger herz < IE base * k̑erd , k̑ṙd , heart > L cor, (gen. cordis), Gr kardia, OIr cride, Serb sr̈ce] 1. a) the hollow, muscular organ in a vertebrate animal that receives blood from the veins and… …

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  • 42-shaped — UK [ʃeɪpt] US suffix used with many nouns to make adjectives describing the shape of something a heart shaped leaf a crescent shaped scar Thesaurus: suffixeshyponym shaped like a specific objecthyponym * * * …

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  • 43-shaped — [ ʃeıpt ] suffix used with many nouns to make adjectives describing the shape of something: a heart shaped leaf a crescent shaped scar …

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  • 44heart cherry — n. any of several heart shaped and soft fleshed varieties of sweet cherry: cf. BIGARREAU …

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  • 45heart urchin — n. any of an order (Spatangoida) of echinoid echinoderms with an elongated, somewhat heart shaped shell …

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  • 46heart cherry — noun 1. any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart shaped fruits • Syn: ↑oxheart, ↑oxheart cherry • Hypernyms: ↑sweet cherry, ↑Prunus avium 2. large heart shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh • Syn: ↑ …

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  • 47heart — /hat / (say haht) noun 1. a hollow muscular organ which by rhythmic contraction and dilatation keeps the blood in circulation throughout the body. 2. this organ considered as the seat of life, or vital powers, or of thought, feeling, or emotion:… …

  • 48Heart (symbol) — The heart (♥) has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and in the past also intellectual core of a human being. As the heart was once widely believed to be the seat of the human mind, the word heart continues to …

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  • 49heart shell — noun 1. : any of numerous bivalve mollusks especially of the families Cardiidae and Carditidae with shells that are heart shaped in outline when viewed from the end 2. : the shell of a heart shell mollusk * * * 1. any of numerous bivalve mollusks …

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  • 50heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart shaped outer covering. [1835 45] * * * ▪ echinoderm  any echinoid marine invertebrate of the order Spatangoidea (phylum Echinodermata), in which the body is usually oval… …

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