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{
"etymology_text": "From its rapid diving, on account of which the Native Americans believed it had magical powers.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spirit ducks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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}
],
"glosses": [
"A bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)."
],
"id": "en-spirit_duck-en-noun-owGNzXP9",
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"bufflehead",
"bufflehead"
],
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"Bucephala albeola",
"Bucephala albeola#Translingual"
]
]
}
],
"word": "spirit duck"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From its rapid diving, on account of which the Native Americans believed it had magical powers.",
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{
"form": "spirit ducks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"name": "en-noun"
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"lang_code": "en",
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],
"glosses": [
"A bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)."
],
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"bufflehead",
"bufflehead"
],
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"Bucephala albeola",
"Bucephala albeola#Translingual"
]
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"word": "spirit duck"
}
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