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- Two-winged insects characterized by active flight
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- Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping
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- A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
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- Small air-breathing arthropod (plural)
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- Large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites
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- Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
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- Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
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- Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
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- Big cat known as king of the jungle
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- Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans
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- Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
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- A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
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- Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful
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- Furry pet that purrs and chases mice
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- Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur
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- A young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
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