guinea fowl
guinea
Numida meleagris | a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white, native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world |
| guinea hen | female guinea fowl |
Guinea worm
Dracunculus medinensis | parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates |
guinea pig
Cavia cobaya | stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy, often kept as a pet and widely used in research |
| currency | general acceptance or use, the currency of ideas |
currentness
currency up-to-dateness | the property of belonging to the present time, the currency of a slang term |
| guinea hen | flesh of a guinea fowl (especially of hens) |
| Comptroller of the Currency | the agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency |
Equatorial Guinea
Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Spanish Guinea | a country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea), became independent from Spain in |
| New Guinea | a Pacific island to the north of Australia, the nd largest island in the world, the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea |
Papua New Guinea
Independent State of Papua New Guinea | a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, in it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations |
| Papua | the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea |
Port Moresby
capital of Papua New Guinea | the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea |
Guinea
Republic of Guinea
French Guinea | a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic, formerly a French colony, achieved independence from France in |
Conakry
Konakri
capital of Guinea | a port and the capital of Guinea |
Guinea-Bissau
Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Guine-Bissau
Portuguese Guinea | a republic on the northwestern coast of Africa, recognized as independent by Portugal in |
Bissau
capital of Guinea-Bissau | the capital of Guinea-Bissau |
| Gulf of Guinea | a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa |
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Guinea
greaseball | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent |
| Comptroller of the Currency | a United States federal official who regulates the national banks |
| subject case guinea pig | a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures, someone who is an object of investigation, the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly, the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities |
Guinea pepper negro pepper
Xylopia aethiopica | tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine |
durra
doura
dourah
Egyptian corn
Indian millet Guinea corn | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa |
grains of paradise
Guinea grains
Guinea pepper melagueta pepper
Aframomum melegueta | West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds |
guinea gold vine
guinea flower | any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers |
snake's head fritillary
guinea-hen flower
checkered daffodil
leper lily
Fritillaria meleagris | Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times, widely grown as an ornamental |
| currency | the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used |
| fractional currency | paper currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit |
cash
hard cash
hard currency | money in the form of bills or coins, there is a desperate shortage of hard cash |
| hard currency | a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value, the countries agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency, replacing previous barter arrangements, Germany once had a solid economy, good fiscal and monetary policies, and a hard currency |
paper money
folding money
paper currency | currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie |
| guinea | a former British gold coin worth shillings |
| kina | the basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea |
| Guinea-Bissau monetary unit | monetary unit in Guinea-Bissau |
Guinea-Bissau peso
peso | the basic unit of money in Guinea-Bissau, equal to centavos |
Guinea worm disease
Guinea worm
dracunculiasis | a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin |
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red brass
guinea gold | brass with enough copper to give it a reddish tint, used for plumbing pipe and other brass hardware and in cheap jewelry |