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"ref": "1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “A Knife in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring",
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"ref": "2012 January 2, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-05-23, page 46",
"text": "Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.",
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"ref": "1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “A Knife in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring",
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},
{
"ref": "2012 January 2, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-05-23, page 46",
"text": "Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.",
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"word": "sääski"
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"word": "모기"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "culex"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "miģele"
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"code": "nds-de",
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "mi",
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"word": "pōngarongaro"
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"word": "kipcharkarario"
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"code": "nrf",
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
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"word": "bibet"
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
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"masculine"
],
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"masculine"
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"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "uk",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
"word": "ruồi nhuế"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae",
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