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English noun: Laver

1. Laver (person) Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)


SynonymsRod Laver, Rodney George Laver


Instance hypernymtennis player

2. laver (artifact) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions


Broader (hypernym)basin


Domain categoryOld Testament

3. laver (animal) edible red seaweeds


Synonymsred laver


Broader (hypernym)red algae


Member meronymgenus Porphyra, Porphyra

4. laver (animal) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds


Synonymssea lettuce


Broader (hypernym)chlorophyte, green algae


Member meronymgenus Ulva, Ulva









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