See binominal on Wiktionary
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{
"ipa": "[bi.no.miˈnaʊ̯]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bi.nu.miˈnal/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bi.nu.miˈnaɫ]",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bi.nu.miˈnal/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bi.nu.miˈnaɫ]",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bi.nu.miˈna.li/",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"Southern"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(Brazil) -aw"
},
{
"rhymes": "(Portugal) -al"
}
],
"word": "binominal"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "nomenclatura binominal"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "la",
"3": "binōminis"
},
"expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin binōminis",
"name": "lbor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "bi-",
"3": "nominal"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, bi- + nominal",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin binōminis. By surface analysis, bi- + nominal.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "binominales",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "binominal m or f (masculine and feminine plural binominales)",
"name": "es-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"bi‧no‧mi‧nal"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"bi‧no‧mi‧nal"
]
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/al",
"Rhymes:Spanish/al/4 syllables",
"Spanish 4-syllable words",
"Spanish adjectives",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish epicene adjectives",
"Spanish learned borrowings from Latin",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish terms borrowed from Latin",
"Spanish terms derived from Latin",
"Spanish terms prefixed with bi-",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"es:Taxonomy"
],
"glosses": [
"binominal"
],
"links": [
[
"taxonomy",
"taxonomy"
],
[
"binominal",
"binominal#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(taxonomy) binominal"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"natural-sciences",
"taxonomy"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/binomiˈnal/"
},
{
"ipa": "[bi.no.miˈnal]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-al"
}
],
"word": "binominal"
}
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