"weta" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Maori wētā",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Maori wētā.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weta",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "wetas",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Crickets and grasshoppers",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "giant weta"
        }
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        "Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets."
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          "New Zealand",
          "New Zealand"
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          "katydid",
          "katydid"
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          "cricket",
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "New Zealand insect",
          "word": "wētā"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uéta",
          "sense": "New Zealand insect",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "уэ́та"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɛtə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈweta(ː)/",
      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "weta"
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      "word": "giant weta"
    }
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      "form": "weta",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets."
      ],
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          "endemic",
          "endemic"
        ],
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          "New Zealand",
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    {
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "New Zealand insect",
      "word": "wētā"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uéta",
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    }
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