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": having traditional male and female roles obscured or reversed":[
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"the androgynous pronoun them"
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"androgynous clothing"
]
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"the androgynous hairdos favored by the hip",
"an actor whose androgynous looks are at the heart of his appeal",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"TomboyX offers swimwear in androgynous athleisure cuts, with an impressive size range that\u2019s actually been tested on plus-size bodies. \u2014 Maren Larsen, Outside Online , 21 June 2022",
"Bowie, ever a man of theatrics, designed his alter ego in his own image: androgynous , bisexual, and hell-bent on being a rock star. \u2014 Allaire Nuss, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"Donatello\u2019s earlier, smaller David, in bronze, is adolescent, almost androgynous . \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"The main character, Lou, is always being noticed\u2014this tall, androgynous teen. \u2014 Rebecca Sacks, ELLE , 16 June 2022",
"His latest subjects are composites caught between identities: a Black man in a cowboy hat sprouting extra white limbs, an androgynous figure in a bold red suit prodding their chest into cleavage, John F. Kennedy in football pads. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
"The actor was easily the coolest mom in La Jolla in her relaxed gold tweed trousers from Louis Vuitton\u2019s androgynous fall 2022 collection, styled with a simple white shirt and a red lip. \u2014 Kerry Mcdermott, Vogue , 13 May 2022",
"That\u2019s before mentioning his pioneering love of the Canadian tuxedo, androgynous jumpsuits, Hawaiian prints, and naval-bearing shirts\u2014influencing everyone from Tupac to Harry Styles through the years. \u2014 Hayley Maitland, Vogue , 10 May 2022",
"In these poems and others, Millay, like Shakespeare, plays with gender, assuming an androgynous voice and extolling male beauty without identifying it as such. \u2014 Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022"
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"1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"Latin androgynus hermaphrodite, from Greek androgynos , from andr- + gyn\u0113 woman \u2014 more at queen":""
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"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4-j\u0259-n\u0259s",
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4j-\u0259-n\u0259s"
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"unisexual"
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"noun,"
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"\u2014 Dylan Leavitt",
"And though he was singing to women, he reveled in androgyny , appearing onstage in high heels, frilly shirts and revealing chaps.",
"\u2014 Jack Riedy",
"\u2026 I felt like someone else was seeing what I had seen in myself: that my inner sense of androgyny was reflected in ways I carried myself like a man.",
"\u2014 Delacey Skinner",
"The natural androgyny of old age has acquired no appeal. The tendency of male and female bodies to resemble each other in late maturity is still conventionally ridiculous and deplorable \u2026",
"\u2014 Anne Hollander"
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In that vein, this is also possibly the studio's queerest movie, featuring as one of its few likable characters a flamboyant Ziggy Stardust androgyne , the high-end thrift shop owner Artie (John McCrea). \u2014 Sara Stewart, CNN , 29 May 2021",
"With the cessation of lactation the female reenters somer and becomes once more a perfect androgyne . \u2014 Harold Bloom, The New Yorker , 20 Nov. 2020",
"Younger designers seemed keen on re-clothing notions of women and men, with fluorescent expressions of gender fluidity and slinky knitwear for digital androgynes . \u2014 Troy Patterson, The New Yorker , 10 Sep. 2019",
"Xerxes is depicted as an androgyne sybarite, his brooding eyes rimmed with kohl, his lips, nose, and ears all pierced with rings linked by delicate golden chains. \u2014 Myke Cole, The New Republic , 1 Aug. 2019",
"Bigender [bahy-jen-der] | adjective (bigender people) Someone who identifies with two distinct genders, such as man/woman or woman/ androgyne . \u2014 WSJ , 2 Aug. 2018"
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"after t",
"or g",
"after p",
"d",
"usually \u1d4an(d)",
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"or b",
"and",
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"2 and 2 equals 4."
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"Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German unti and":"Conjunction"
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"or g",
"after p",
"d",
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"\u02c8and",
"\u0259nd",
"or z",
"or b",
"and",
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"2 and 2 equals 4."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184753"
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"noun"
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": a gradual and highly variable decline in the production of androgenic hormones and especially testosterone in the human male together with its associated effects that is held to occur during and after middle age":[]
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"\u02c8an-dr\u0259-\u02ccp\u022fz"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191211"
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"\u02ccan-dr\u0259-\u02c8jen-\u0259-s\u0259s",
"\u02ccan-dr\u014d-\u02c8je-n\u0259-s\u0259s"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The possibility of androgenesis is just one of many mysteries about Squalius alburnoides. \u2014 Steph Yin, New York Times , 26 May 2017"
],
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"New Latin":""
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"High androgen levels can present as acne, excess face and body hair, and thinning scalp hair. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF , 17 Nov. 2021",
"The researchers hope that these androgen -blocking drugs will control TMPRSS2, the enzyme that functions as a welcome mat to the coronavirus in men. \u2014 Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com , 8 July 2020",
"In high school Harriet was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, a hormonal disorder that triggers the female body to produce too many male androgens . \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 22 Feb. 2020",
"Long story short, doctors believe this excess insulin due to insulin resistance might make your ovaries produce extra androgens , like testosterone. \u2014 Mary Claire Lagroue, SELF , 12 Sep. 2019",
"Antiandrogen drugs, such as the spironolactone pill, work by blocking androgen receptors to decrease the actions and effects of testosterone in the body. \u2014 Jenn Sinrich, SELF , 2 July 2019",
"Experts aren\u2019t sure of exactly how these excess androgens can affect ovulation. \u2014 Mary Claire Lagroue, SELF , 23 Apr. 2019",
"Christina was diagnosed in 2009 with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition in which the ovaries produce an elevated level of androgens . \u2014 Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com , 6 Sep. 2019",
"That\u2019s when your doctor might recommend adding in an androgen blocker such as spironalactone. \u2014 Jessica Cruel, SELF , 8 Aug. 2019"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-210518"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"High androgen levels can present as acne, excess face and body hair, and thinning scalp hair. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF , 17 Nov. 2021",
"The researchers hope that these androgen -blocking drugs will control TMPRSS2, the enzyme that functions as a welcome mat to the coronavirus in men. \u2014 Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com , 8 July 2020",
"In high school Harriet was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, a hormonal disorder that triggers the female body to produce too many male androgens . \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 22 Feb. 2020",
"Long story short, doctors believe this excess insulin due to insulin resistance might make your ovaries produce extra androgens , like testosterone. \u2014 Mary Claire Lagroue, SELF , 12 Sep. 2019",
"Antiandrogen drugs, such as the spironolactone pill, work by blocking androgen receptors to decrease the actions and effects of testosterone in the body. \u2014 Jenn Sinrich, SELF , 2 July 2019",
"Experts aren\u2019t sure of exactly how these excess androgens can affect ovulation. \u2014 Mary Claire Lagroue, SELF , 23 Apr. 2019",
"Christina was diagnosed in 2009 with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition in which the ovaries produce an elevated level of androgens . \u2014 Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com , 6 Sep. 2019",
"That\u2019s when your doctor might recommend adding in an androgen blocker such as spironalactone. \u2014 Jessica Cruel, SELF , 8 Aug. 2019"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Two of his nine siblings had undergone similar operations, but his relatives never talked about the fact that androgen insensitivity syndrome , a genetic intersex condition, ran in the family. \u2014 Kate Sosin, USA TODAY , 11 Aug. 2020",
"She was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome , a condition that caused her to have external female anatomy and, internally, undescended testes instead of a uterus. \u2014 Diane Stopyra, Marie Claire , 5 July 2017"
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"1969, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213440"
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"noun"
],
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"\u02c8an-\u02ccdr\u022fid"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The return of the acclaimed sci-fi drama marks the end of a two-year wait for new episodes of the series which chronicles an android uprising that started at an adult theme park and has since spilled over into the real world. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022",
"Another option is the Sense Home Energy Monitor (starts at $299 for non-solar homes) installs in your home\u2019s electrical panel and provides insight into your energy use and home activity in real-time, through iOS android and web apps. \u2014 Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Kogonada dramatically aestheticizes the android \u2019s memories, evoking them through a three-dimensional array of lights that resemble stars. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Following in the footsteps of A.I. and Ex Machina, the affecting new movie After Yang uses an android to explore human questions. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Based on a short story by Alexander Weinstein and directed by Korean American director Kogonada, the futuristic film begins with the malfunction of Yang, a beloved android (Justin H. Min) and companion to young Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja). \u2014 ELLE , 5 Mar. 2022",
"For better or worse, so much of cyberpunk's android dreams have come true. \u2014 Madeline Ashby, Wired , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The writing tends to be stylized and stilted, which works for the android leads but leaves the humans more flat. \u2014 James Poniewozik, New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Raised by Wolves wrapped up its second season on March 17 with Mother using Grandmother's veil to deactivate her sensory filter, allowing the android to kill her scary flying snake baby. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a genus of Indian plants (family Acanthaceae) with entire leaves, small tubular flowers, and dry capsular fruits \u2014 see creat":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from andr- + Greek graphis stylus, pencil, paintbrush, from graphein to write; from the form of the filaments":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"first_known_use":{
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": one of the group of cells that divide to produce androcytes and eventually spermatozoids (as in mosses and ferns)":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-225423"
},
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
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"New Latin, from andr- + Greek oikion , diminutive of oikos house \u2014 more at vicinity":""
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from andr- + -phore":""
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": having perfect and staminate flowers on the same plant":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021053"
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"definitions":{
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1763, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033722"
},
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"type":[
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"first_known_use":{
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},
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041457"
},
"and anyway":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{
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"It's too expensive, and anyway , we don't have enough time to do it."
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044609"
},
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"type":[
"adverb or adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": slightly faster than andante":[
"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
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": a musical composition or movement in andantino tempo":[]
"Italian, diminutive of andante":"Adverb or adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1744, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb or adjective",
"1815, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052757"
},
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
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"history_and_etymology":{
"andr- + -geny":""
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"first_known_use":{
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},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055440"
},
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"adverb or adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": moderately slow":[
"\u2014 usually used as a direction in music"
],
": a musical composition or movement in andante tempo":[]
},
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"\u00e4n-\u02c8d\u00e4n-(\u02cc)t\u0101",
"-\u02c8d\u00e4n-t\u0113",
"an-\u02c8dan-t\u0113"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"So, for this writer, the plat du jour of the Double Concerto is its second movement, the andante . \u2014 Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com , 10 Nov. 2019",
"The encore was the andante from Bach\u2019s solo Sonata No. 2, played with the utmost beauty and simplicity. \u2014 John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com , 9 Mar. 2018"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, literally, going, present participle of andare to go":"Adverb or adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
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"1752, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-061424"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants":[]
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"andr- + dioecious, diecious":""
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"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072017"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": development of an embryo from a fertilized enucleated egg or egg fragment which shows only male characters : androgenesis":[]
"The tank in the andrology lab, where sperm is handled, is fixed, but the tank in the embryology lab - containing frozen eggs and embryos -- still needs repaired. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland.com , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Approximately August 2017-November 2017: The autofill function in the freezer tanks in the andrology and embryology labs malfunction. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland.com , 3 Apr. 2018",
"However, other aspects of what fertility clinics cover, such as andrology , the study of male reproductive health, are covered, making that part of the lab subject to federal inspection. \u2014 Ginger Christ, cleveland.com , 22 Mar. 2018",
"The hospital system first noticed issues with the tank in its andrology lab, where sperm is handled, and were able to successfully fix that tank. \u2014 Ginger Christ, cleveland.com , 29 Mar. 2018"
": an Ethiopian princess of Greek mythology rescued from a monster by her future husband Perseus":[],
": a northern constellation directly south of Cassiopeia between Pegasus and Perseus":[]
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"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4m-\u0259d-\u0259",
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4-m\u0259-d\u0259"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Spikes of creamy white astilbe mimicked Mona Lisa\u2019s skin tone, and the long seed heads of the andromeda aped her fingers and added a tawny layer. \u2014 Lindsey Taylor, WSJ , 7 Aug. 2018",
"The andromeda alongside my front steps mysteriously died over the winter. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2018",
"Lace bugs are extremely common on both azaleas and andromeda , shrubs that like moist organic soil and partial shade. \u2014 Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com , 17 May 2018",
"Your andromeda and azaleas have lace bugs, an insect that inserts its feeding tube into the leaf and sucks out the contents of plant cells. \u2014 Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com , 17 May 2018",
"There are no richer parterres to my eyes than the dense beds of dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculata) which cover these tender places on the earth\u2019s surface. \u2014 Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic , 6 Oct. 2017",
"Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there,\u2014the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda , lambkill, azalea, and rhodora,\u2014all standing in the quaking sphagnum. \u2014 Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic , 6 Oct. 2017"
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"Latin, from Greek Andromed\u0113":"Noun"
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"1754, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": the Dravidian language of the Andhra region of southern India":[]
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"\u02c8\u0259ndr\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Andhra , India":""
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"1816, in the meaning defined above":""
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"island, largest of Bahamas area 1600 square miles (4160 square kilometers), population 7686":[],
"island of Greece 25 miles (40 kilometers) long in the northern Cyclades":[]
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"\u02c8an-\u02ccdr\u00e4s",
"-dr\u0259s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121633"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a native or inhabitant of the Andhra region or of Andhra Pradesh, southern India":[]
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"\u02c8\u0259ndr\u0259n"
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"from Andhra , India + English -an":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1952, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125058"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the wife of Hector":[]
},
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"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4-m\u0259-(\u02cc)k\u0113"
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"Latin, from Greek Andromach\u0113":""
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133821"
},
"Andaman Sea":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"sea in southeastern Asia, the eastern section of the Bay of Bengal":[]
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-171857"
},
"androgonial":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": of or relating to an androgonium":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from androgonium + English -al":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1926, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173804"
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"and change":{
"type":[
"idiom"
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"There's only six minutes and change left in the game."
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185707"
},
"Andean condor":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": condor sense 1a":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8d\u0113-\u0259n-",
"\u02c8an-(\u02cc)d\u0113-\u0259n-"
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
"1855, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191824"
},
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"geographical name"
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"state of southeastern India north of Tamil Nadu bordering on the Bay of Bengal; capital Hyderabad area 61,932 square miles (160,404 square kilometers), population 40,533,541":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8desh",
"\u02cc\u00e4n-dr\u0259-pr\u0259-\u02c8d\u0101sh"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194743"
},
"Andaman redwood":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": amboyna":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
"1814, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-200836"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus of usually tufted herbs (family Primulaceae) native to the northern hemisphere having basal tufted leaves, small terminal white or pink flowers, and capsular fruits \u2014 see rock jasmine":[]
": a steroid sex hormone C 19 H 26 O 2 that is secreted by the testes, ovaries, and adrenal cortex and is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of testosterone and estrogen":[]
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Mark McGwire, who admitted to taking androstenedione , a steroid, received 12.3% of the votes in 2016, his final year on the ballot. \u2014 Evan Petzold, USA TODAY , 28 Jan. 2022"
": either of a pair of metal supports for firewood used on a hearth and made of a horizontal bar mounted on short legs with usually a vertical shaft surmounting the front end":[]
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"\u02c8an-\u02ccd\u012b-\u0259rn",
"\u02c8and-\u02cc\u012b(-\u0259)rn"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The sixth of seven sons sired by Swiss immigrant andiron -smelting baron Meyer Guggenheim, Benjamin had boarded Titanic in Cherbourg with his latest in a long line of mistresses, French singer Leontine Aubart. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The cat handle of this pencil box from spring 2020 was inspired by Art Nouveau fireplace andirons that the French interior designer Armand-Albert Rateau had made for Jeanne Lanvin\u2019s country home. \u2014 Lindsay Talbot, New York Times , 26 Feb. 2020",
"Pride would sift into you as the door swung slowly open to reveal a foyer full of silver vases teeming with flowers and a large fireplace, its bold brass andirons supporting fat crackling pine logs. \u2014 Whitney Tower, Town & Country , 5 Feb. 2014",
"Spheres from Areo and white bronze Robert andirons from Lyle and Umbach create a shimmering still life in the nonworking fireplace. \u2014 Sarah Yang, House Beautiful , 10 Dec. 2013",
"Classic pieces like elegant Sheraton armchairs stand side by side with folk art that wouldn\u2019t be out of place in a Southern Gothic horror film, not to mention all the wildly eclectic andirons . \u2014 Katie Kiefner, Vogue , 31 July 2017"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-073039"
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"type":[
"geographical name"
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"river 157 miles (253 kilometers) long in northeastern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine flowing into the Kennebec River":[]
},
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"\u02ccan-dr\u0259-\u02c8sk\u00e4-g\u0259n"
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"Andi":{
"type":[
"adjective",
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"definitions":{
": a north Caucasic language":[]
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"\u02c8\u00e4nd\u0113"
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"first_known_use":{
"1813, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-073940"
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"type":[
"idiom"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a crystalline glucoside C 15 H 20 O 8 that is found in an herb ( Apocynum androsaemifolium ) and that yields glucose and acetovanillone on hydrolysis":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8andr\u0259s\u0259\u0307n",
"-\u02ccsin"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary andros- (from New Latin androsaemifolium \u2014specific epithet of Apocynum androsaemifolium \u2014, from andr- + saemi- semi- + Latin folium leaf) + -in":""
},
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"1909, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an androgenic hormone that is a hydroxy ketone C 19 H 30 O 2 found especially in male urine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4-st\u0259-\u02ccr\u014dn",
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4s-t\u0259-\u02ccr\u014dn"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-113820"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": crabwood entry 1":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccand\u0259\u02c8r\u014db\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"American Spanish andiroba or Portuguese andiroba, jandiroba , from Tupi andir\u00f3ba, nandiroba":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1813, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-114235"
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"androtomy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": anthropotomy":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"an\u02c8dr\u00e4t\u0259m\u0113"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"andr- + ana tomy":""
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1691, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-131513"
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"andiamo":{
"type":[
"Italian verb"
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"definitions":{
": let's go!":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-d\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-m\u014d"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-140738"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of tropical American trees (family Leguminosae) characterized by large odd-pinnate leaves, fragrant showy rose to purplish flowers in terminal clusters, and a fruit resembling a drupe":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an\u02c8d\u0113r\u0259",
"-dir\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Portuguese, angelim, from Tupi":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1794, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-152148"
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"androcyte":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a cell in bryophytes that by modification becomes a sperm cell \u2014 compare spermatid , spermatocyte":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"andr- + -cyte":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-164611"
},
"Andijon":{
"type":[
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"definitions":{
"city in Uzbekistan east-southeast of Tashkent population 298,300":[]
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"\u02ccan-di-\u02c8j\u014dn"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-171738"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a tree ( Pterocarpus dalbergioides ) of the Andaman islands with reddish or red-brown wood like mahogany":[],
": the wood of the Andaman padauk tree":[]
},
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"first_known_use":{
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"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
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"andro centric"
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": male":[
"andr oecium"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek, from andr-, an\u0113r ; akin to Oscan ner- man, Sanskrit nar- , Old Irish nert strength":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-190737"
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"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"region of southern Spain including the Sierra Nevada and the valley of the Guadalquivir River":[]
": an Ethiopian princess of Greek mythology rescued from a monster by her future husband Perseus":[],
": a northern constellation directly south of Cassiopeia between Pegasus and Perseus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4m-\u0259d-\u0259",
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4-m\u0259-d\u0259"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Spikes of creamy white astilbe mimicked Mona Lisa\u2019s skin tone, and the long seed heads of the andromeda aped her fingers and added a tawny layer. \u2014 Lindsey Taylor, WSJ , 7 Aug. 2018",
"The andromeda alongside my front steps mysteriously died over the winter. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2018",
"Lace bugs are extremely common on both azaleas and andromeda , shrubs that like moist organic soil and partial shade. \u2014 Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com , 17 May 2018",
"Your andromeda and azaleas have lace bugs, an insect that inserts its feeding tube into the leaf and sucks out the contents of plant cells. \u2014 Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com , 17 May 2018",
"There are no richer parterres to my eyes than the dense beds of dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculata) which cover these tender places on the earth\u2019s surface. \u2014 Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic , 6 Oct. 2017",
"Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there,\u2014the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda , lambkill, azalea, and rhodora,\u2014all standing in the quaking sphagnum. \u2014 Henry David Thoreau, The Atlantic , 6 Oct. 2017"
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"Latin, from Greek Andromed\u0113":"Noun"
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"1754, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
"Hans Christian 1805\u20131875 Danish writer":[]
},
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"\u02c8an-d\u0259r-s\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-232859"
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"noun"
],
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": any of a breed of horses of Spanish origin that have a high-stepping gait":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccan-d\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc-zh\u0259n"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Andalusia , Spain":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1612, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-013345"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a native or inhabitant of the Andes":[],
": of or belonging to the middle period of the ancient Tiahuanaco culture of coastal Peru":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an\u02c8d\u0113(\u02cc)n\u014d",
"\""
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Spanish, Andean":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1903, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1881, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-031602"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a calcium-iron garnet occurring in various colors ranging from yellow and green to brown and black":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8dr\u00e4-\u02ccd\u012bt",
"\u02c8an-dr\u0259-\u02ccd\u012bt"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Jos\u00e9 B. de Andrada e Silva \u20201838 Brazilian geologist":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1868, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-050111"
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"andragogy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the art or science of teaching adults":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02ccg\u014dj\u0113",
"-\u02ccg\u00e4g\u0113",
"\u02c8andr\u0259\u02ccg\u00e4j\u0113"
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"borrowed from New Latin, from Andreaea genus of mosses (after Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae \u20201793 German apothecary and naturalist) + -ales -ales":""
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"Good ol\u2019 Sammy-n-Mac, bringing the game back, one bit of andro at a time, one corked Louisville Slugger at a time. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 16 June 2021",
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"definitions":{
": a meteorite composed essentially of augite with a little olivine and troilite":[]
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"definitions":{
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"definitions":{
": a bramble ( Rubus glaucus ) of tropical American highlands having dark purple fruit like raspberries":[]
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": a mineral consisting of a compound of silver, lead, antimony, and sulfur PbAgSb 3 S 6 occurring in dark gray or black prisms":[]
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"\u02c8and\u0259\u02ccr\u012bt"
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"German andorit , from Andor von Semsey \u20201923 Hungarian nobleman + German -it -ite":""
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"circa 1900, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Andrenidae ) of burrowing solitary short-tongued bees including important pollinators of economic plants":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an\u02c8dr\u0113n\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, probably irregular from Greek anthr\u0113n\u0113 hornet, wasp":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1806, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-163704"
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"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"landlocked country of southwestern Europe in the eastern Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain; a republic whose capital is":[
"Andorra la Vel*la \\ an-\u200b\u02c8d\u022fr-\u200b\u0259-\u200bl\u00e4-\u200b\u02c8vel-\u200by\u00e4 , -\u200b\u02c8d\u00e4r-\u200b\u0259 \\"
],
"area 181 square miles (468 square kilometers), population 85,700":[
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},
"pronounciation":[
"an-\u02c8d\u022fr-\u0259",
"-\u02c8d\u00e4r-\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-172115"
},
"andouille":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a highly spiced smoked pork sausage":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4n-\u02c8d\u00fc-\u0113",
"\u02c8\u00e4n-d\u00fc-\u0113"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These Wayne Jacob's andouille sticks are dark as cigars, thick as the handle on a baseball bat, marbled within with white ribbons of fat and smoky enough to set off a fire alarm. \u2014 Ian Mcnulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com , 9 Nov. 2020",
"Compton, meanwhile, confidently commands a chocolate-brown roux before piling in andouille sausage and fresh crawfish. \u2014 Adam Rapoport, Bon App\u00e9tit , 19 May 2020",
"Boudin and another Louisiana-style sausage called andouille , which is all meat (traditionally pork), are also getting noticeably more shelf space at area grocery stores and meat markets. \u2014 Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com , 20 Apr. 2020",
"Something like hot Italian sausage or a Cajun andouille . \u2014 James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com , 25 Sep. 2019",
"The boudin balls, jambalaya on this night in April, nail the traditional notes but adapt to local products \u2014 andouille is replaced by smoked kielbasa from Golemo\u2019s Polish Market. \u2014 Kevin Koczwara, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Aug. 2019",
"Steak, blackened chicken, sliced andouille sausage, all hit with Cajun seasonings, go on a bed of jambalaya rice. \u2014 Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star , 7 Aug. 2019",
"The first uses scallops, shrimp, andouille sausage, chicken thighs, vegetables, saffron and seafood-chicken stock. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 July 2019",
"Think barbecue pulled pork with squash cakes and carrots, golden veggie beet bowls, shrimp and andouille pasta, and Southern-style almond chicken with baked apple and zucchini-corn muffins. \u2014 Celestina Blok, star-telegram , 5 July 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Old French andoille , from Vulgar Latin *inductilia , neuter plural of *inductilis made by insertion, from Latin inductus , past participle of inducere to insert, bring in \u2014 more at induce":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1605, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-175355"
},
"and otherwise":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-183417"
},
"Andrenidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large family of short-tongued bees which are solitary in habit and most of which burrow in the ground":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0113n-",
"-ren\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Andrena , type genus + -idae":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1831, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-192814"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a bee of the family Andrenidae":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u0113n\u0259\u0307d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Andrenidae":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1893, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-193418"
},
"andesine":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a triclinic feldspar intermediate between albite and anorthite that is an ingredient of andesite":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8and\u0259\u02ccz\u0113n"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from German Andesin , from Andes ite andesite + -in -ine entry 2":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-203952"
},
"Andreotti":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Giulio 1919\u20132013 prime minister of Italy (1972\u201373; 1976\u201379; 1989\u201392)":[]
"commune in the region of Puglia, southeastern Italy population 95,073":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-dr\u0113-\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-234515"
},
"Andrias":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of large fossil Miocene salamanders scarcely distinct from the recent genus Cryptobranchus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8andr\u0113\u0259s"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek, image of a man, from andr-, an\u0113r man; from the fact that the first specimen found was believed to be the remains of a man destroyed by the Deluge":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1848, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-024259"
},
"Andri\u0107":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Ivo 1892\u20131975 Serbo-Croatian author":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-drich"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-030538"
},
"Andricus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of cynipid gall wasps chiefly affecting various oaks":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"an\u02c8dr\u012bk\u0259s"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1861, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-032020"
},
"andaman and nicobar":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"union territory of India comprising the Andaman and Nicobar island groups; capital Port Blair area 3202 square miles (8293 square kilometers), population 356,265":[]
