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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
mile-a-minute en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty miles per hour.
Mr. Baird adds that this is not the first post-war example of a mile-a-minute timing in G.S.W.R. territory.
1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 194:
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mile-a-minute en · ADV
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(idiomatic, informal, not-comparable) Very fast.
He was all excited after the game, talking a mile-a-minute about the last-second shot.
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mile-a-minute en · NOUN
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Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable. ▸ Asiatic tearthumb, kudzu of the North (Persicaria perfoliata), native to eastern Asia, introduced to northeastern US.
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Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable. ▸ Kudzu (Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata), native to eastern Asia, highly invasive elsewhere.
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Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable. ▸ mile-a-minute vine (Ipomoea cairica), native from tropical Africa to the Mediterranean, invasive elsewhere.
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Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable. ▸ Mikania micrantha, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
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Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable. ▸ Russian vine (Fallopia baldschuanica), native to central Asia, widely naturalized.
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Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable. ▸ Okie bean (Dipogon lignosus), native to South Africa, introduced elsewhere.
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