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"ref": "1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 137:",
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"text": "Then came some hollow groanings from inside the cabinet. The Spiritualists sat up expectantly. \"That's ectoplasm,\" said Ogilvy. \"It always causes pain on emission.\"",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums",
"word": "外質"
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{
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"word": "ectoplasma"
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"word": "ektoplasma"
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"word": "ectoplasma"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums",
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"neuter"
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"word": "ectoplasma"
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"word": "엑토플라즘"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums",
"word": "ektoplazma"
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"sense": "parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums",
"word": "ectoplasma"
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"feminine"
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"sense": "parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums",
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"sense": "parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums",
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"word": "ektoplazma"
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"roman": "ektoplázma",
"sense": "parapsychology: visible substance believed to emanate from spiritualistic mediums",
"word": "ектопла́зма"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "parapsychology: an immaterial or ethereal substance",
"word": "ektoplasma"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "cytology: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm",
"word": "labaskaphay"
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}
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