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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("National Academy of Sciences" is a kind of...):
academy; honorary society (an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature)
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