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  "alveolar process":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the bony ridge or raised thickened border of the upper or lower jaw that contains the sockets of the teeth : alveolar ridge sense 1":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1756, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172330"
  },
  "alveolar ridge":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the bony ridge or raised thickened border of the upper or lower jaw that contains the sockets of the teeth : alveolar process":[
        "It is common for many of the teeth to be displaced from the alveolar ridge into the palate.",
        "\u2014 M. A. Kettle et al."
      ],
      ": the gum-covered ridge of bone behind the teeth in the upper jaw":[
        "Both sounds are fricatives made by creating a partial obstruction between the tongue and the alveolar ridge \u2026",
        "\u2014 Cognitive Science"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184716"
  },
  "alveolariform":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": alveoliform":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6alv\u0113\u0259\u00a6lar\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary alveolar + -iform":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1879, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211712"
  },
  "alveolar surface":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a flat surface lying just within the cutting margin of the jaw of a turtle and functioning in mastication":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1866, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214037"
  },
  "alveolar theory":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a now discarded cytological theory that held protoplasm to be essentially an emulsion in which the apparent ground substance is the discontinuous phase":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1891, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232902"
  },
  "alveolar ducts":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the somewhat enlarged terminal sections of the bronchioles that branch into the terminal alveoli":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1883, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022746"
  },
  "alveolary":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": alveolar":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "al\u02c8v\u0113\u0259\u02ccler\u0113",
      "\u02c8alv\u0113-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alveolar + -y":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1733, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033819"
  },
  "alveolate":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": pitted like a honeycomb":[
        "alveolate pollen"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "al-\u02c8v\u0113-\u0259-l\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1796, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063820"
  },
  "alveole":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": alveolus":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8alv\u0113\u02cc\u014dl"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French alv\u00e9ole , from Latin alveolus":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1814, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082524"
  }
}