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Cling peaches are called that because they cling to this
What is the pit or stone
100
Taste buds that sense sweetness are on the tip of this organ
What is the tongue
100
When used to mean a road, pike is short for this
What is turnpike
100
Crocodilians are the only reptiles in which this organ has 4 separated chambers
What is the heart
100
This part of speech can be transitive or intransitive
What is verb
200
The fruit of the nopal cactus is this kind of pear
What is prickly pear
200
Crowns put on front teeth are often made of porcelain; those put on back teeth, of this precious metal
What is gold
200
Members of this military group are called leathernecks
What are Marines
200
The armadillo possesses the endo- & exo- types of this support structure
What is skeleton
200
Tradition has it that this type of noun is capitalized
What is proper noun
300
Citrus fruit named for the resemblance of its apex to a belly button
What is navel orange
300
A week or two after the bite of an Anopheles mosquito, this disease's symptoms may appear
What is malaria
300
This word can mean a type of small deer or the eggs of a fish
What is roe
300
E. coli, one of these found in humans, is often used in genetic studies
What is bacteria
300
In "Discovering English Grammar", Richard Veit says it's okay to sometimes split these
What are infinitives
400
Wintercress is also called scurvy grass because of its high content of this vitamin
What is vitamin C
400
Chinese restaurant syndrome is a short-lived illness caused by eating this flavor enhancer
What is MSG
400
This 3-letter word can refer to smoked salmon or liquid oxygen
What is lox
400
A bird's crop is an expanded area of this part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx & stomach
What is the esophagus
400
The 2 prepositions that are common to all crossword puzzles
What are down and across
500
Maui and Vidalia, Georgia are famous for producing sweet types of this vegetable
What are onions
500
About 1 in 400 African-Americans has this hereditary disease affecting the hemoglobin
What is sickle-cell anemia
500
The name of this common device for regulating the flow of a liquid comes from the Latin word for "false"
What is faucet
500
In 1910 Paul Ehrlich announced the arsenic-based drug Salvarsan was an effective treatment for this disease
What is syphilis
500
In the 1800s Alonzo Reed & Brainerd Kellogg devised an artistic way to do this to a sentence
What is diagram