dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/mbu_MW.json
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{
"Mbuti":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": bambuti":[
"In the forest, these Bantu and Sudanic cultivators encountered various groups of hunter-gatherers collectively known in the Ituri as Mbuti .",
"\u2014 Richard B. Peterson , Cultural Survival Quarterly , 1990",
"But capturing the animal is not easy in the dense Ituri, which only the Mbuti know well.",
"\u2014 Sandra Mbanefo , Our Living World , October 1992",
"Egyptian documents indicate that in 2300 b.c. the Egyptians were in contact with Pygmies called Aka, which is still the name of one major Mbuti group \u2026",
"\u2014 Luigi Cavalli-Sforza et al. , The History and Geography of Human Genes , 1994",
"\u2026 the Mbuti people of Congo hunt communally with nets.",
"\u2014 Barbara Ehrenreich , Ms. , June/July 1999"
],
": a member of this people":[],
": a Bambuti hunter-gatherer people of the Ituri Forest of central Africa":[
"Phylogenetic and sequence divergence estimates indicate that \u2026 the Mbuti and Biaka Pygmies had independent origins.",
"\u2014 Michael Yudell et al., T he Genomic Revolution: Unveiling the Unity of Life , 2002"
],
": the language of the Mbuti people":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"em-\u02c8b\u00fc-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1977, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114516"
}
}