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Moines Or Plaines Preceder Crossword Clue

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noun

• a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

• synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy

44%11 Discovered the Des Plaines River in present-day Illinois
noun

• French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

35%4Preceder of uno
noun

• large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters

• large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil

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