音标:[ˈplɑ:zəz] ;
n. (尤指西班牙语城镇的)露天广场( plaza的复数形式 ); 购物中心
n. a public square with room for pedestrians
n. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace

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achroma(to)cyte
across bust point
alin
Anglophilia
anthracometry
as hard as marble
as sure as nails
assessment of performance
Bagayevskiy
basin aspect
basket-weaving
be all in the same boat
Blandlube
boardhouse
Boomer generation
Cargenbridge
Caryophanon
ceiling exchange rate
chorioido-
citrus glaberrima hort. et tanaka
comprador capitalism
cooling water coil
Cox's Bazar
Crichtons
cuddlier
direc-tion
Dirty Devil R.
dispiritment
dissonant colours
distance between side windows
distant reading type
distressingnesses
dynamic gauge changing
early transition metal
eisers
eliminate heat with warmth and sweetness
expert advice
floating profit
free ascent
full-scale conditions
genogroup
get your hands on
gloeosporium olivarum alm
gyllenhaal
hakutas
high-quality burning oil
holtonite
hookkeeper
inaptitudes
infusion method
injection beginning
inter-media file transfer
iodine-131
iskowitz
Kelokedara
kidflation
Lardos
left-half side production
line-functional structure
marmalize
microxylorhiza matsudai
monotonicity
network and trunk equipment
neuroangiomatosis
nonblack
nonfirefighter
nontruth
Oberonia variabilis
Open-drain
opsonocytopbagic tests
overcarving
pantagamy
papilio protenor protenor
Pattensen
profanize
Program trades
reaffirm
reality television
rebalanced subtree
remotabola
shunt admittance of transmission line
special most favored nation clause
spruceana
SRNM
step screen
stratospheric propagation
Strmilov
suppression pool nozzles
sustained segment
suturae sphenoethmoidalis
taylor-proudman theorem
technoshaman
tool steel for hot working
topographic low
traffic graph
treble back gears
unmanned helicopter
value of perfect information
van der waals calorimeter
Vridi, Can.de
wet-stream sampling
ysleta