See dimorphism on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "geology: property of existing in two distinct crystalline forms",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dimorfismo"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"dimorphism"
],
"word": "dimorphism"
}
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