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"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "closest point in an orbit about the Earth",
"word": "kublayo sa Duta"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "closest point in an orbit about the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "perigê"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "closest point in an orbit about the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "perigeau"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "closest point in an orbit about the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "daearnesafiant"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "closest point in an orbit about the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "daearnesafiannau"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "closest point in an orbit about a planet",
"word": "periapsis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "closest point to the Earth",
"word": "perigeum"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "closest point to the Earth",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "périgée"
}
],
"word": "perigee"
}
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