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teardrop
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teardrop has 2 senses
- teardrop(n = noun.shape) Array - anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring); Array is a kind of bead, drop, pearl
- teardrop(n = noun.body) tear - a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes" is a part of lachrymal secretion, lacrimal secretion
is a kind of drib, driblet, drop
THESAURUS
teardrop
bawling, bead, blubbering, chyle, colostrum, cry, crying, dewdrop, discharge, drop, droplet, fit of crying, flood of tears, gleet, good cry, greet, humor, ichor, lachryma, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, lactation, leukorrhea, lymph, matter, melting mood, milk, mucor, mucus, overflowing eyes, pearl, peccant humor, phlegm, purulence, pus, raindrop, rheum, saliva, sanies, serous fluid, serum, sniveling, snot, sobbing, suppuration, sweat, tear, tear bottle, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, the whites, urine, weepiness, weeping, whimpering
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