"multicursal" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "multi- + -cursal",
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  "etymology_text": "multi- + -cursal, on the pattern of unicursal, bicursal and tricursal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more multicursal",
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        "comparative"
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    {
      "form": "most multicursal",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, W. H. Matthews, Mazes & Labyrinths, page xii. 185",
          "text": "The Hampton Court maze..may serve as the type of a compact and the Versailles example..that of a diffuse multicursal labyrinth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, W. B. Faris, The Labyrinths of Lang, page iv. 86",
          "text": "The reader's progress through these labyrinths of language thus forms a multicursal pattern.",
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        "Of a maze or labyrinth: having more than one possible route between the centre and the outside."
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        "(sometimes figurative) Of a maze or labyrinth: having more than one possible route between the centre and the outside."
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        "sometimes"
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌməltaɪ-/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "multicursal"
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  "etymology_text": "multi- + -cursal, on the pattern of unicursal, bicursal and tricursal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more multicursal",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most multicursal",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1922, W. H. Matthews, Mazes & Labyrinths, page xii. 185",
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        "Of a maze or labyrinth: having more than one possible route between the centre and the outside."
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        "(sometimes figurative) Of a maze or labyrinth: having more than one possible route between the centre and the outside."
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        "sometimes"
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  "word": "multicursal"
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