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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto 3, verse 30",
"text": "And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.",
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"ref": "1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling",
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"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-au-hap.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
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}
{
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"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from New Latin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/æp",
"Rhymes:English/æp/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "NL.",
"3": "-"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Haplochromis",
"2": "genus"
},
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"name": "taxfmt"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "haps",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Entries using missing taxonomic name (tribe)"
],
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"Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini."
],
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"cichlid"
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]
}
],
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},
{
"rhymes": "-æp"
},
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"audio": "En-au-hap.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/En-au-hap.ogg/En-au-hap.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-au-hap.ogg",
"tags": [
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],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
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],
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}
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