This Choreo retrieves a reverse dictionary search for a given word. The documentation for this Wordnik method can be found here.
Here is an example of acceptable inputs:
APIKey: {YOUR API KEY}
Query: tree leaves
The following is a partial sample of the information returned by this Choreo:
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"totalResults": 41,
"results": [
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"sourceDictionary": "century",
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"word": "saddletree",
"text": "The American tulip-tree, Liriodendron tulipifera: name suggested by the form of the leaf. Also saddle-leaf.",
"sequence": "1",
"score": 1.9256216,
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia"
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"sourceDictionary": "gcide",
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"relatedWords": [
{
"words": [
"grasshopper",
"frog",
"grape",
"leaf",
"tree"
],
"relationshipType": "variant"
}
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"labels": [
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"word": "hopper",
"text": "See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.",
"sequence": "5",
"score": 1.9008728,
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English",
"seqString": "5 (a)"
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"sourceDictionary": "century",
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"relatedWords": [
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"words": [
"belgaum walnut",
"western walnut",
"dwarf walnut",
"walnut case-bearer",
"otaheite walnut",
"indian walnut",
"mexican walnut",
"walnut catchup",
"English walnut",
"country walnut",
"double walnut",
"caucasian walnut",
"highflier walnut",
"titmouse wal nut",
"walnut leaf-roller",
"white walnut",
"ash-leafed walnut",
"shellbark walnut",
"rock-walnut",
"black walnut",
"jamaica wal nut",
"walnut sword-tail",
"little walnut",
"walnut clay",
"shagbark",
"california black walnut",
"lemon walnut"
],
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}
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"word": "walnut",
"text": "In the West Indies, a name often applied to the angelin or cabbage-tree, Vouacapoua Americana, from its resemblance in leaf and fruit to the English walnut. See cabbage-tree, 2, and Andira.",
"sequence": "0",
"score": 1.7475201,
"attributionText": "from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia"
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"word": "fig leaf",
"text": "An ornamental design shaped like the leaf of a fig tree, used in architecture; also, a design shaped like a fig leaf to cover genitalia in sculpture or paintings -- in reference to the biblical story in Genesis of Adam and Eve, who covered their privates with fig leaves.",
"sequence": "1",
"score": 1.6748978,
"attributionText": "from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English",
"seqString": "2."
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