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"a tall story"adjectivetoo improbable to admit of belief
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"he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"adjectivelofty in style
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nouna garment size for a tall persontype of:
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"tall people" "tall buildings" "tall trees" "tall ships"adjectivegreat in vertical dimension; high in stature
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"a tall order"adjectiveimpressively difficult
Definition that contains tall
- corn tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- collins tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice
- torch tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- reed tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- coco tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- coconut tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- poke tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
- giraffe tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
- marguerite tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
- afghan tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat; native to the Near East