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"ref": "1994, Daniel Evan Weiss, The Roaches Have No King, page 4",
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"An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as cockroaches and mantids)."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "egg case of orthopteroid insects",
"word": "munapussi"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "egg case of orthopteroid insects",
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"sense": "egg case of orthopteroid insects",
"word": "petezárvány"
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"word": "ootheca"
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"word": "munapussi"
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"word": "ootheca"
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"word": "ooteka"
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