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"text": "Meronym: alicorn"
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"text": "Holonym: blessing"
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"ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 106",
"text": "The unicorn who may be touched and tamed only by a chaste virgin is a lunar symbol of the ancient religion of Europe.",
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"word": "eenhoring"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "միեղջյուր"
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"word": "unicorniu"
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"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "soquili utligi",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "ᏐᏈᎵ ᎤᏟᎩ"
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"roman": "dújiǎoshòu",
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"word": "独角兽"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"lang": "Esperanto",
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"word": "unukornulo"
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"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "ükssarvik"
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"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "einhyrningur"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "yksisarvinen"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "licorne"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "unicornio"
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"roman": "marṭorka",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "მარტორქა"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"lang": "Greenlandic",
"sense": "mythical beast",
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"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "chad-qeren",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "חַד-קֶרֶן"
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"roman": "iksiṅgā",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "इकसिंगा"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "unikornis"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "unikorno"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "unikorn"
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"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "kuda bertanduk"
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "aonbheannach"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "unicorno"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"word": "liocorno"
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"alt": "きりん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kirin",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "麒麟"
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"alt": "いっかくじゅう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ikkakujū",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "一角獣"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yunikōn",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "ユニコーン"
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"word": "一角馬"
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"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "jalğyz müiız",
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"word": "жалғыз мүйіз"
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"roman": "sehsnaengmuəy",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "សេះស្នែងមួយ"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "유니콘"
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"roman": "ilgaksu",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "일각수"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"word": "kuda sumbu"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"english": "Chinese unicorn",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "uiherin",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "ᡠᡳᡥᡝᡵᡳᠨ"
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"lang": "Manx",
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"word": "un-eairkagh"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "unikanga"
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"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "yunikŏrna",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "युनिकॉर्न"
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"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "unicorne"
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"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
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"word": "łį́į́ʼ bideeʼłáaʼii"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "enhjørning"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "einhyrning"
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"code": "oj",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "ningodeshkani"
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"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "mythical beast",
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"word": "ānhorn"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tek shâkh",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"word": "تکشاخ"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "jednorożec"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "unicórnio"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "licorne"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "unicorn"
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"sense": "mythical beast",
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "inorog"
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"code": "rm",
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"sense": "mythical beast",
"tags": [
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"word": "unicorn"
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"code": "ru",
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"masculine",
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},
{
"form": "unicorn",
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},
{
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},
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},
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"plural"
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