plurale tantum in Englisch

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    }
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    },
    {
      "form": "the pluralia tantum",
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        {
          "text": "Many languages have pluralia tantum, such as the English words clothes, scissors, entrails, pants, trousers and feces. Siehe auch die Kategorie Pluraletantum (Englisch)."
        }
      ],
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  "word": "plurale tantum"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "singulare tantum"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Englisch",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Substantiv (Englisch)",
    "Wartung roter Link en-Substantiv",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "aus dem Lateinischen übernommen, „nur Plural“",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the plurale tantum",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the pluralia tantum",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Many languages have pluralia tantum, such as the English words clothes, scissors, entrails, pants, trousers and feces. Siehe auch die Kategorie Pluraletantum (Englisch)."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "das Pluraletantum (Pluralwort – Wort, das nicht im Singular vorkommt)"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1",
      "topics": [
        "linguistics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plurale tantum"
}

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"plurale tantum" meaning in Englisch

Noun