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• velvet bush

  [DJE different sp.; from its downy leaves] n. a shrub, Melochia tomentosa: 1977 (Patterson 29). = STAIN BARK (Exuma)
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• velvet bush

  [cf. OED velvet seed (G. elliptica)] n. a shrub, Guettarda scabra, with white flowers and red berries: 1920 (Britton 412).
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• vegetable egg

  [OED different sp.; from its yellow, egg-shaped fruit] n. a plant, Lucuma nervosa: 1946 (Morton 25). = EGG FRUIT 2,
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• veal-of-the-sea

  (White); wheel-of-the-sea (Exuma) [from the tenderness of its meat; cf. BEEF-OF-THE-SEA loggerhead turtle, MUTTON-OF-THE-SEA hawksbill turtle; wheel from veal by
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• varmint

  [OED idem (variant of vermin) dial. and US, an animal of a noxious kind (OED quot. refers to mammals only)]
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• vanilla

  n. 1. [OED, W3 different sp.] a shrub, Eupatorium odoratum, whose seeds smell like vanilla: 1920 (Britton 439). (Exuma) 2.
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• value

  [OED idem obs. → 1658] v. to be worth: 1954 They value money [are worth money] . . They value
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• vacky

  [from evacuee] n. a person, usually a woman or child, evacuated to the Bahamas from Britain during World War II:
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• vaccinate

  [OED, V. only] n. vaccination: I tell him go get his vaccinate (Ragged).
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