Definition of uncle

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Uncle (n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship..

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Sparse :: Sparse (superl.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like..
Aunt :: Aunt (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle..
Siphuncle :: Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
Pollution :: Pollution (n.) The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity..
Soil :: Soil (n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust..
Eyestalk :: Eyestalk (n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip..
Podocephalous :: Podocephalous (a.) Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk..
Immund :: Immund (a.) Unclean.
Furuncle :: Furuncle (n.) A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil..
Triflorous :: Triflorous (a.) Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle..
Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) A carbuncle.
Unwashed :: Unwashed (a.) Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.
Pedunculated :: Pedunculated (a.) Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster..
Charbocle :: Charbocle (n.) Carbuncle.
Anatifa :: Anatifa (n.) An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia..
Strophiole :: Strophiolated (a.) Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it..
Suprabranchial :: Supra-axillary (a.) Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous..
Carunculous :: Carunculous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles..
Pennatulacea :: Pennatulacea (n. pl.) A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria..
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