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noun(ro-sa-ry)a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of meditation on usually five sacred mysteries during recitation of five decades of Hail Marys of which each begins with an Our Father and ends with a Gloria Patri
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noun(ro-sa-ry)a string of beads used in counting prayers especially of the Roman Catholic rosary
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noun(ro-sa-ry)a tropical twining herb (Abrus precatorius) of the legume family that bears jequirity beans and has a root used as a substitute for licorice —called also Indian licorice, jequirity bean
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noun(ro-sa-ry)jequirity bean
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noun(ro-sa-ry)a set of Roman Catholic prayers that are repeated in a specific order