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"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "tengerparti"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "tengermelléki"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "partvidéki"
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"code": "io",
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"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "litorala"
},
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "litoraneo"
},
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "lītorālis"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "matāwhanga"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "litoralny"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pribréžnyj",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "прибре́жный"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "litoral"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "kust-"
},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "kıyısal"
},
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "sahilsel"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pryberéžnyj",
"sense": "of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore",
"word": "прибере́жний"
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"ref": "1946 January and February, G. A. Sekon, “The L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:",
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"ref": "1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:",
"text": "The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.",
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"ref": "2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:",
"text": "Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.",
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"word": "littoral range"
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"roman": "krajbrežie",
"sense": "the shore",
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"word": "крайбрежие"
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"sense": "the shore",
"word": "kust"
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"sense": "the shore",
"word": "kuststreek"
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"sense": "the shore",
"word": "kustgebied"
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "the shore",
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"word": "ακτή"
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "the shore",
"word": "litoro"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "the shore",
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"word": "litoraneo"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the shore",
"tags": [
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"word": "spiaggia"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the shore",
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"word": "litorale"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "the shore",
"word": "matāwhanga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "the shore",
"word": "ara o Hinekirikiri"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "béreg",
"sense": "the shore",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "бе́рег"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the shore",
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"Littoral zone"
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