English Dictionary: Giovanni Boccaccio |
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Gabon franc
n 1: the basic unit of money in Gabon
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- gaboon viper
- n
- large heavy-bodied brilliantly marked and extremely
venomous west African viper
Synonym(s): gaboon viper, Bitis gabonica
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- Giovanni Battista Cibo
- n
- Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist
and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)
Synonym(s): Innocent VIII, Giovanni Battista Cibo
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- Giovanni Battista Montini
- n
- Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on
fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978)
Synonym(s): Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini
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- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- n
- Italian painter (1696-1770) [syn: Tiepolo, {Giovanni
Battista Tiepolo}]
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- Giovanni Boccaccio
- n
- Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375) [syn:
Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio]
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- Giovanni Francesco Albani
- n
- Italian pope from 1700 to 1721 who condemned Jansenist
ideas on papal infallibility
Synonym(s): Clement XI, Giovanni Francesco Albani
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- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- n
- Italian composer (1526-1594) [syn: Palestrina, {Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina}]
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- Giovanni Vincenzo Pecci
- n
- Italian pope from 1878 to 1903 who was interested in the
advancement of learning and who opened the Vatican secret archives to all scholars
Synonym(s): Leo XIII, Gioacchino Pecci, Giovanni Vincenzo Pecci
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- Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
- n
- Italian astronomer who first noted lines (which he called
canals) on the surface of Mars (1835-1910)
Synonym(s): Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
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- goa bean vine
- n
- a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish
flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics
Synonym(s): winged bean, winged pea, goa bean, goa bean vine, Manila bean, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
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- GP bomb
- n
- a large bomb (500 to 2,000 pounds that is 50% explosive)
whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effect
Synonym(s): general-purpose bomb, GP bomb
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- Guevina avellana
- n
- Chilean shrub bearing coral-red fruit with an edible seed
resembling a hazelnut
Synonym(s): Chilean nut, Chile nut, Chile hazel, Chilean hazelnut, Guevina heterophylla, Guevina avellana
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