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"word": "characteristic of the style of continental Europe"
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"word": "continental plate"
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"word": "continental seating"
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"word": "palaeocontinental"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"text": "→ Korean: 콘티넨털 (kontinenteol)"
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"text": "continental drift",
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"ref": "2012, Chinle Miller, “The Tectonic Forces of the Mesozoic”, in In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition, page 34",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
"word": "قَارِّيّ"
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳonṭinenṭuri",
"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
"word": "კონტინენტური"
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
"word": "יבשתי"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
"word": "mór-roinneach"
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "qūrlyqtyq",
"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
"word": "құрлықтық"
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"roman": "kontynentálʹnyj",
"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
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"sense": "of or relating to a continent or continents",
"word": "קאָנטינענטאַל"
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"ref": "1846 The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland (A. Fullarton, Dublin) Vol.1 p.x \"Introduction; Extent\"",
"text": "The outline of continental Ireland is proximately that of a rhomboid ; and, in a general view, is greatly more continuous or less indented and undulated by cuts and sweeps of the sea than the outline of continental Great Britain."
}
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"word": "continental divide"
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