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"form": "most dotterel",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "dotterel (comparative more dotterel, superlative most dotterel)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:",
"text": "some old dotterel trees",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"decayed"
],
"links": [
[
"decayed",
"decayed"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈdɒtɹəl/"
},
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}
],
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}
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