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"word": "ծովախոզ"
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"code": "ast",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "dinesquadegiyusdi",
"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "ᏗᏁᏍᏆᏕᎩᏳᏍᏗ"
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "fo",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "pyöriäinen"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "marsouin"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"note": "also dolphin",
"roman": "delpini",
"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "დელფინი"
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{
"code": "ka",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "ზღვის ღორი"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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"masculine"
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "sūns",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "disznódelfin"
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"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ga",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "focena"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nezumiiruka",
"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "ネズミイルカ"
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"code": "km",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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"roman": "soedolgorae",
"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "쇠돌고래"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "돌고래"
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"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "dœn fin nū",
"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "ເດິນຟິນໜູ"
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{
"code": "lt",
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"note": "in most cases",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
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"code": "nds-de",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Dümmler"
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "mórska svínja",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "мо́рска сви́ња"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "tūpoupou"
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{
"code": "mhr",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "вӱд сӧсна"
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{
"code": "enm",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "porpeys"
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{
"code": "enm",
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"word": "mereswyn"
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{
"code": "nv",
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{
"code": "nrf",
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{
"code": "nb",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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{
"code": "nn",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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{
"code": "ang",
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"code": "ota",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "طوڭوز بالغی"
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{
"code": "ota",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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{
"code": "fa",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "cetacean",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "rm",
"lang": "Romansch",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "sco",
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"sense": "cetacean",
"word": "dunter"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "gd",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
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"word": "cana"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
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"word": "плискавица"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "cetacean",
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"neuter"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "cetacean",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "sh",
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"code": "sl",
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"feminine"
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"code": "es",
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"feminine"
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"code": "sw",
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"word": "sea lion"
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"ref": "1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 15:",
"text": "Urging them to join me, I raced in circles through the surging water, chased my tail for the children, blew spouts of foam through the sunfilled spray, porpoised to and fro across the river in shallow leaps that stitched the air and water into a table-lace of foam.",
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"(intransitive) Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water."
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