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"ref": "2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32",
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"sense": "a creature",
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"feminine"
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"word": "criatura"
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"sense": "a creature",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "a creature",
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],
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"sense": "a creature",
"word": "luontokappale"
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"code": "fr",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "bestiole"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kreatur"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Tier"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bestiola"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "animaletto"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a creature",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a creature",
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"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
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"word": "criatura"
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"sense": "a creature",
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"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vietate"
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"roman": "zverjuška",
"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "зверюшка"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zveruška",
"sense": "a creature",
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"word": "зверушка"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "a creature",
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "criatura"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
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"word": "bichito"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a creature",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kreatur"
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],
"word": "critter"
}
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