NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

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 I. (noun) 

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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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