See Beltian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"Belt",
"Belt#English"
],
[
"-ian",
"-ian#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Belt",
"3": "ian"
},
"expansion": "Belt + -ian",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Belt + -ian.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more Beltian",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most Beltian",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Beltian (comparative more Beltian, superlative most Beltian)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ian",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
79
]
],
"ref": "2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 26:",
"text": "Bullhorn acacia ants live off extrafloral nectar [...] and protein-rich Beltian bodies [...] of the host tree.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or relating to Thomas Belt (1832–1878), English geologist and naturalist."
],
"id": "en-Beltian-en-adj-Docd2xl9",
"links": [
[
"geologist",
"geologist"
],
[
"naturalist",
"naturalist"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Beltian"
}
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"Belt",
"Belt#English"
],
[
"-ian",
"-ian#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Belt",
"3": "ian"
},
"expansion": "Belt + -ian",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Belt + -ian.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more Beltian",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most Beltian",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Beltian (comparative more Beltian, superlative most Beltian)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ian",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
79
]
],
"ref": "2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 26:",
"text": "Bullhorn acacia ants live off extrafloral nectar [...] and protein-rich Beltian bodies [...] of the host tree.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or relating to Thomas Belt (1832–1878), English geologist and naturalist."
],
"links": [
[
"geologist",
"geologist"
],
[
"naturalist",
"naturalist"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Beltian"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Beltian meaning in English (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.