"ab ovo" meaning in English

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        "lit": "from the egg"
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      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin ab ōvō (literally “from the egg”)",
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin ab ōvō (literally “from the egg”).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "2011, Ludwig Büchner, J. Frederick Collingwood, Force and Matter: Empirico-Philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered, Cambridge University Press",
          "text": "We should be led too far, nor would it possess sufficient interest for our readers, were we, in this place specially, to discuss this important and complicated question, and to show ab ovo why this notion has been rejected.",
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        "From the beginning."
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "ab ovo",
          "word": "ab ovo"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "ab ovo",
          "word": "ab ovo"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "ab ovo",
          "word": "ab ovo"
        }
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/æˈboʊˌvoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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    }
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  "word": "ab ovo"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "We should be led too far, nor would it possess sufficient interest for our readers, were we, in this place specially, to discuss this important and complicated question, and to show ab ovo why this notion has been rejected.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "From the beginning."
      ],
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/æˈboʊˌvoʊ/",
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        "General-American"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ab ovo",
      "word": "ab ovo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ab ovo",
      "word": "ab ovo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ab ovo",
      "word": "ab ovo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ab ovo"
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