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"sense": "region of the Earth",
"word": "intanan"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "region of the Earth",
"word": "nhiệt đới"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "region of the Earth",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "trofannau"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"tropics"
],
"word": "tropics"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_description/20250107",
"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"tropics"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "tropics",
"trace": ""
}
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