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  • anady
    /(a)nádi/ [W Car. nata idem; from Carib onoto via Am. Sp. anate DJE] n. a shrub, Bixa orellana, with red
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  • ammonia
     n. pneumonia: Take off them wet clothes fore you catch ammonia (Nassau). (Gen.)
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  • American roach
    n. 1. (from color] an albino cockroach (not unusual) (San Sal.) 2. [from size] the small one-inch cockroach (Blattella gernzanica)
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  • American rake
    [probably from US origin of many manufactured goods, but cf. Brit. dial. West American rake machine for raking hay EDD]
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  • American pear
    [from US origin] n. the northern pear, Pyrus communis, as opposed to the avocado pear. = BARTLETT PEAR, FALSE PEAR
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  • American guava
    [from color] n. the white guava, Psidium sp., with yellowish fruit. (Gen)
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  • amber jack
    [Car.; cf. almaco jack, Seriola rivoliana] n. a fish, Seriola dumerili: 1972 (Chaplin 20). = OCEAN JACK (Gen.)
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  • amaze
    See MAKE A MAZE.
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  • am
    copula 1. [cf. A2 idem (the bilabial nasal /m/ may have resulted from the following bilabial stop /b/ in the
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  • along with
    [cf. ALONG OF 2 and Pan-Creole merger of prep., with and conj. and, e.g. Pap. ku, Sra. nanga (cognate of
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