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"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian 3-syllable words",
"Italian countable nouns",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian masculine nouns",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/ite",
"Rhymes:Italian/ite/3 syllables",
"it:Biology",
"it:Entomology"
],
"glosses": [
"somite"
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"entomology",
"entomology"
],
[
"somite",
"somite#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(biology, entomology) somite"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"entomology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/soˈmi.te/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ite"
}
],
"word": "somite"
}
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