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"sense": "the American elk",
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"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "shwa ba rnga ring",
"sense": "the American elk",
"word": "ཤྭ་བ་རྔ་རིང"
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"sense": "the American elk",
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"word": "加拿大馬鹿"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "the American elk",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wapití"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the American elk",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "wapiti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the American elk",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "wapitihjort"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the American elk",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vapiti"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "the American elk",
"word": "wapiti"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "shwa ba rnga ring",
"sense": "the American elk",
"word": "ཤྭ་བ་རྔ་རིང"
},
{
"code": "tsi",
"lang": "Tsimshian",
"sense": "the American elk",
"word": "łioon"
},
{
"code": "unm",
"lang": "Unami",
"sense": "the American elk",
"word": "mus"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "the American elk",
"word": "wapiti"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "the American elk",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "wapiti"
}
],
"word": "wapiti"
}
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