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that which is water-born; the lotus.
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the large, spiral, univalve shell of any of various marine molluscs; a conch.
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the moon, as ocean-born.
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a smooth, hard, usually white or bluish-grey, abnormal nacreous growth of various, usually roundish, shapes, formed around a grain of sand, a parasite or other foreign body within the shell of some oysters and certain other bivalve molluscs which is used as a gem; a pearl.
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name of the celestial elephant of Indra, the Lord of the gods.
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the physician of the gods.
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the middle sized, evergreen tree Barringtonia acutangula of Lecythidaceae family, the wood of which is used in boat building; Indian oak.
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one thousand million.
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the crude camphor.