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aardvark
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aargh
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Aaron
Aaron’s beard
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Aaron’s beard
Aar·on's beard


noun 
Definition:
 
plants 
Same as  rose of Sharon (sense 2)

[After Aaron, who had a long beard (Psalms 133:2), because of the flower's prominent hairy stamens]
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