"elo perdido" meaning in Portuguese

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elos perdidos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "elo perdido m (plural elos perdidos)",
      "name": "pt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "pt",
          "name": "Evolutionary theory",
          "orig": "pt:Evolutionary theory",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1873, Mendonça Cortez, “Finanças entre alguns povos antigos”, in O Instituto, volume XVII, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, pages 243–244:",
          "text": "[…]os povos do Mosoch, do Gog, do Magog, do Thubal e tantos outros, cujos nomes pronunciamos na vasta solidão da historia, sem podermos dispertar um echo que nos responda, sem acharmos um monumento que nos traga o elo perdido da cadêa interrupta da historia da humanidade! E não obstante elle deve existir.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "missing link (transitional primate between apes and humans)"
      ],
      "id": "en-elo_perdido-pt-noun-9PloHuV7",
      "links": [
        [
          "evolutionary theory",
          "evolutionary theory"
        ],
        [
          "missing link",
          "missing link"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "evolutionary theory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(evolutionary theory) missing link (transitional primate between apes and humans)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elo perdido"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elos perdidos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "elo perdido m (plural elos perdidos)",
      "name": "pt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Portuguese countable nouns",
        "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Portuguese lemmas",
        "Portuguese masculine nouns",
        "Portuguese multiword terms",
        "Portuguese nouns",
        "Portuguese nouns with red links in their headword lines",
        "Portuguese terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Portuguese quotations",
        "pt:Evolutionary theory"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1873, Mendonça Cortez, “Finanças entre alguns povos antigos”, in O Instituto, volume XVII, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, pages 243–244:",
          "text": "[…]os povos do Mosoch, do Gog, do Magog, do Thubal e tantos outros, cujos nomes pronunciamos na vasta solidão da historia, sem podermos dispertar um echo que nos responda, sem acharmos um monumento que nos traga o elo perdido da cadêa interrupta da historia da humanidade! E não obstante elle deve existir.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "missing link (transitional primate between apes and humans)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "evolutionary theory",
          "evolutionary theory"
        ],
        [
          "missing link",
          "missing link"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "evolutionary theory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(evolutionary theory) missing link (transitional primate between apes and humans)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elo perdido"
}