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basil
basil is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
- 2transitive verb
To grind or form the edge of to an angle.
- 3noun
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum).
- 4noun
The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
- 5noun
leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried
- 6noun
(Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)
- 7noun
any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum
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