"molehill" meaning in Englisch

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Noun

Forms: the molehill [singular], the molehills [plural]
Etymology: zusammengesetzt aus mole und hill
  1. Maulwurfshügel
    Sense id: de-molehill-en-noun-yxE-dn9B
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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