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"ref": "1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, in The Subtle Minotaur",
"text": "You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.",
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
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"word": "балена"
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
"word": "barto"
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
"tags": [
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"word": "fanone"
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "fiszbin"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kitóvyj us",
"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кито́вый ус"
},
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"sense": "horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale",
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"word": "ballena"
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