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"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper."
],
"links": [
[
"fiber",
"fiber"
],
[
"Agave americana",
"Agave americana#Translingual"
],
[
"cordage",
"cordage"
],
[
"paper",
"paper"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The plant which yields the fiber."
],
"links": [
[
"plant",
"plant"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪtə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpiːtə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpiːtə/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪtə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːtə"
},
{
"homophone": "PETA (US)"
},
{
"homophone": "Peter (non-rhotic accents)"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pita2.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pita2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-pita2.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"pita"
],
"word": "pita"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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