"maceration" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404:",
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          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
          "word": "maceración"
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          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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          "word": "maceration"
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          "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
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      "word": "maceración"
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      "sense": "act or process of macerating",
      "word": "maceración"
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