decollate snail - a cone-shaped, burrowing snail, Rumina decollata, that feeds on common brown garden snails.
I wonder if it has a taste for escargot?
deconstruction - a philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and esp. applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or identification because words essentially only refer to other words and therefore a reader must approach a text by eliminating any metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions through an active role of defining meaning, sometimes by a reliance on new word construction, etymology, puns, and other word play.
Not quite the same meaning as disassembly
deep fat - hot fat used for deep-frying food.
As opposed to shallow fat?
defender of the bond - an official appointed in each diocese to uphold marriages of disputed validity.
defensive medicine - the practice by a physician of ordering many tests or consultations as a means of self-protection against charges of malpractice in the event of an unfavorable outcome of treatment.
definitive host - the host in or on which a parasite spends the sexual stage of its life cycle.
Normal parties have a host. Frat parties have a definitive host
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