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"ref": "1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita",
"text": "[…] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]",
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "lanugo"
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"word": "lanugen"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "untuvakarva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "lanugo"
},
{
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lanugo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Lanugo"
},
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "lanugo"
},
{
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "lanugo"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "lanugine"
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "lanugo"
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"tags": [
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"word": "lanugo"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "goflew"
}
],
"word": "lanugo"
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