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1605 lines
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"Cucurbitaceae":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a family of chiefly herbaceous tendril-bearing vines (order Campanulales) that are characterized by an inferior ovary and anthers usually united and that include food plants (as the cucumber, melon, squash, and pumpkin), drug plants (as the colocynth), and ornamental plants (as the gourds)":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Cucurbita , type genus + -aceae":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02cc)ky\u00fc\u02cck\u0259rb\u0259\u02c8t\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-203455",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"plural noun"
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]
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},
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"Cucurbitariaceae":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a family of ascomycetous fungi (order Sphaeriales) having the perithecia in caespitose clusters on the stroma":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Cucurbitaria , type genus (from Latin cucurbita gourd + New Latin -aria ) + -aceae":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02cc)ky\u00fc\u02cck\u0259rb\u0259\u02ccta(a)r\u0113\u02c8\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194349",
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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]
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},
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"cuckoo":{
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"antonyms":[
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"balmy",
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"barmy",
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"bats",
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"batty",
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"bedlam",
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"bonkers",
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"brainsick",
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"bughouse",
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"certifiable",
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"crackbrained",
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"cracked",
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"crackers",
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"crackpot",
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"cranky",
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"crazed",
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"crazy",
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"daffy",
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"daft",
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"demented",
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"deranged",
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"fruity",
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"gaga",
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"haywire",
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"insane",
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"kooky",
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"kookie",
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"loco",
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"loony",
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"looney",
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"loony tunes",
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"looney tunes",
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"lunatic",
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"mad",
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"maniacal",
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"maniac",
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"mental",
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"meshuga",
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"meshugge",
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"meshugah",
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"meshuggah",
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"moonstruck",
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"non compos mentis",
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"nuts",
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"nutty",
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"psycho",
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"psychotic",
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"scatty",
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"screwy",
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"unbalanced",
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"unhinged",
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"unsound",
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"wacko",
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"whacko",
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"wacky",
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"whacky",
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"wud"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a silly or slightly crackbrained person":[],
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": deficient in sense or intelligence : silly":[],
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": of, relating to, or resembling the cuckoo":[],
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": the call of the cuckoo":[],
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": to repeat monotonously as a cuckoo does its call":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"one cuckoo at the campground tried to boil soup in a plastic cup",
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"didn't want to be among those cuckoos who race around the mall the day before Christmas",
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"Adjective",
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"a cuckoo woman who wandered around town carefully gathering up useless trash",
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"offered a completely cuckoo suggestion for using the defunct strip mall",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"The traditional finery is ornate and the souvenir cuckoo clocks even more so. \u2014 Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
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"For example, Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s 6th Symphony simulates a cuckoo with a clarinet, a nightingale with a flute, and a quail with an oboe. \u2014 Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 June 2022",
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"Daddy's little girl is all grown up, which makes Martin's George Banks a little cuckoo . \u2014 Hilary Weaver, ELLE , 1 June 2022",
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"Some, like the common cuckoo , are egg-tossing executioners; others, like the cowbirds that Hauber studies, let their host siblings survive, but still jostle them out of the way to beg, loudly and insistently, for food. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 26 Oct. 2021",
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"Today, grazing and ranching, dams, and water withdrawal for development pose the greatest threats to the cuckoo . \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 18 Oct. 2021",
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"As dawn broke and the rising sun lit the top of the canopy, the cuckoo finally arrived to investigate. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Jan. 2021",
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"The cuckoo \u2019s numbers have been shrinking in recent years, but conservation scientists are unsure why. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Jan. 2021",
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"Jay Qualman is a rare bird in the Detroit jungle: a purebred car cuckoo who nests in the high branches of the automobile business. \u2014 Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver , 27 Nov. 2020",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"In the midst of such cuckoo -ness, my son, Isaac, and daughter-in-law, Lennon, had the courage to bring a child into this world. \u2014 New York Times , 15 Mar. 2022",
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"Generations later, those simple handmade objects evolved further into cuckoo clocks, music boxes and movie projectors. \u2014 Pat Mcdonogh, The Courier-Journal , 12 Jan. 2022",
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"After keeping up a cuckoo -bananas schedule through 2020 and 2021, the band will be taking an extended period of rest, Big Hit Music announced on Twitter. \u2014 Bethy Squires, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
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"In some areas of the Coronado National Forest, Bugbee has witnessed herds of unbranded cattle wreaking havoc on cuckoo habitat. \u2014 Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic , 23 Nov. 2021",
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"For a weary cuckoo chick, a few extra strength-training sessions might make all the difference between booting its fourth and final nest-mate and having to share its chow. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 26 Oct. 2021",
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"To say the world had gone cuckoo for Christian Dior would not be an overstatement; reports show that by 1949, Dior\u2019s confections for the closet accounted for nearly three-quarters of France\u2019s fashion exports. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 28 Sep. 2021",
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"There are several species of cuckoo bees in Oregon. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Aug. 2021",
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"That is truly cuckoo bananas \u2014 and that is saying something with this show. \u2014 refinery29.com , 4 Aug. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"1627, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"1648, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English cuccu , of imitative origin":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8k\u00fc-k\u00fc",
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"\u02c8k\u00fc-(\u02cc)k\u00fc",
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"\u02c8ku\u0307-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"berk",
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"booby",
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"charlie",
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"charley",
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"ding-a-ling",
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"ding-dong",
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"dingbat",
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"dipstick",
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"doofus",
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"featherhead",
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"fool",
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"git",
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"goose",
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"half-wit",
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"jackass",
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"lunatic",
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"mooncalf",
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"nincompoop",
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"ninny",
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"ninnyhammer",
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"nit",
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"nitwit",
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"nut",
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"nutcase",
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"simp",
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"simpleton",
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"turkey",
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"yo-yo"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231236",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"cucurbitaceae":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a family of chiefly herbaceous tendril-bearing vines (order Campanulales) that are characterized by an inferior ovary and anthers usually united and that include food plants (as the cucumber, melon, squash, and pumpkin), drug plants (as the colocynth), and ornamental plants (as the gourds)":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Cucurbita , type genus + -aceae":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02cc)ky\u00fc\u02cck\u0259rb\u0259\u02c8t\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191726",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"plural noun"
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]
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},
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"cuckoo spit":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a frothy secretion exuded on plants by the nymphs of spittle insects":[],
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": spittlebug":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192639"
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},
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"cuckoo wasp":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of certain usually brilliantly metallic-green or metallic-blue wasps that constitute the family Chrysididae or the superfamily Chrysidoidea and lay their eggs in the provisioned larval cells of other hymenopterous insects":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022039"
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},
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"cuckoo sorrel":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": wood sorrel sense 1a":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022553"
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},
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"cuckoo shrike":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of numerous Old World birds somewhat like flycatchers in habits constituting the family Campephagidae but formerly often included in the family Laniidae and differing from the true shrikes especially in their undulating flight resembling that of the cuckoo":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063242"
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},
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"cuckoo wrasse":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a brilliantly colored European wrasse ( Labrus mixtus ) the male orange or yellow banded with bright blue and the female reddish brown blotched with black":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064741"
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},
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"cuckquean":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a woman whose husband is unfaithful to her":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"cuck old + quean":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104742"
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},
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"cuckoo ray":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a European ray ( Raja noevus )":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-141528"
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},
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"cuca":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": coca":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8k\u00fck\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Quechua k\u00faka":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153904"
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},
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"cucumber":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ky\u00fc-(\u02cc)k\u0259m-b\u0259r",
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"\u02c8ky\u00fc-\u02cck\u0259m-b\u0259r"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Cooling cucumber and mint against serrano chiles gives a delicious hot-cold sensation. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Apr. 2022",
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"The aguachile is a glistening raw sea scallop in its shell dressed with cucumber , mint, and chile \u2014 like ceviche in a party dress. \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 7 July 2021",
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"Muddle cucumber and mint in the bottom of a shaker tin. \u2014 Jason O'bryan, Robb Report , 3 June 2021",
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"For those who\u2019ve spent too much time in the sun, a cucumber melon Swedish massage at the spa relieves both the skin and stress. \u2014 Anna Haines, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
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"With sea kelp and cucumber fruit, this balm glides on and provides a cooling effect to calm irritation and prevent chafing. \u2014 ELLE , 18 June 2022",
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"Deep-clean your complexion with SkinCeuticals' foam face wash, which is infused with glycerin and cucumber extract. \u2014 April Franzino, Good Housekeeping , 17 June 2022",
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"Stir and garnish with cucumber slice, lime and cilantro. \u2014 Erin Jensen, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
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"Kendall pointed to her cucumber scene as her standout moment, after her unorthodox cutting technique exploded online. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 June 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French cucumbre , from Latin cucumer-, cucumis":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-163515"
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},
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"cucumber angular leaf spot":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a leaf spot of cucumber caused by a bacterium ( Pseudomonas lachrymans )":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180615"
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},
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"cucumber beetle":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of several leaf beetles that are especially injurious to cucumbers and squashes, attacking the leaves as adults and the roots and stems as larvae \u2014 see spotted cucumber beetle , striped cucumber beetle \u2014 compare corn rootworm":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211426"
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},
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"cucaracha":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a Mexican ballroom and nightclub dance":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cck\u00fck\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4ch\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"from ( La ) Cucaracha The Cockroach, Mexican popular song to which it is danced":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211948"
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},
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"cucumber tree":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a magnolia ( Magnolia acuminata ) of the eastern U.S. having fruit resembling a small cucumber":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1782, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215033"
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},
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"cuckooflower":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a bitter cress ( Cardamine pratensis ) of Eurasia and North America":[],
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": ragged robin":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ku\u0307-",
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"\u02c8k\u00fc-(\u02cc)k\u00fc-\u02ccflau\u0307(-\u0259)r"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215844"
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},
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"cuckoo falcon":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of numerous falcons of a genus ( Aviceda ) distinguished by a crested head and doubly notched bill and commonly resembling cuckoos in color and pattern":[]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223124"
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"cuchia":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a sluggish fish ( Amphipnous cuchia ) resembling an eel, inhabiting swamps in Bengal, and having membranous vascular sacs enabling it to breathe air and most fins absent or vestigial":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8k\u00fcch\u0113\u0259"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Bengali k\u0169ciy\u0101":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-234157"
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},
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"cucumber scab":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a disease of the cucumber caused by a fungus ( Cladosporium cucumerinum ) characterized by spotting and blighting of the leaves and dark sunken cavities on the fruit":[]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001821"
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},
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"cucurbit wilt":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a disease of cucumbers and related plants characterized by sudden wilting of affected plants and caused by a motile bacterium ( Erwinia tracheiphila )":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-004740"
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},
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"cuchifrito":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a deep-fried cube of pork":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cck\u00fcchi\u02c8fr\u0113t\u014d",
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"-ch\u0113\u02c8-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"American Spanish, from cuch\u00ed hog, pork (alteration of Spanish cochino hog) + Spanish frito fried, past participle of freir to fry, from Latin frigere":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010055"
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},
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"Cucumariidae":{
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a large family of shallow-water sea cucumbers (order Dendrochirota) having a number of intricately branched oral tentacles, an internal madreporite, and a well-developed respiratory tree":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccky\u00fck(y)\u0259m\u0259\u02c8r\u012b\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Cucumaria , type genus + -idae":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010724"
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},
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"cucina":{
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"type":[
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"Italian noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": kitchen : cuisine":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"k\u00fc-\u02c8ch\u0113-n\u00e4"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044621"
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},
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"cucumber mosaic":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a plant disease especially of cucumbers that is caused by a single-stranded RNA virus (species Cucumber mosaic virus of the genus Cucumovirus , family Bromoviridae ) and is transmitted chiefly by an aphid and produces mottled foliage and often pale warty fruits":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1916, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050247"
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},
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"cuckoopint":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a European arum ( Arum maculatum ) with erect spathe and short purple spadix":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ku\u0307-",
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"\u02c8k\u00fc-(\u02cc)k\u00fc-\u02ccpint"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English cuccupintel , from cuccu + pintel pintle":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1551, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-053932"
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},
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"cucurbit mosaic":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": cucumber mosaic":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
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|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-055217"
|
|
},
|
|
"Cucumis":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a genus of plants (family Cucurbitaceae ) that are native to the warmer parts of the world, that include the cucumbers and muskmelons, and that have small sepals and a corolla with five petals":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8ky\u00fck(y)\u0259m\u0259\u0307s"
|
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],
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|
"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, from Latin, cucumber":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-072843"
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},
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"cuckold":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb"
|
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],
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|
"definitions":{
|
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": a man whose wife is unfaithful":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"-(\u02cc)k\u014dld",
|
|
"\u02c8k\u0259-k\u0259ld"
|
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Bloom is a Dubliner, a Jew, a husband and father, a racehorse-fancier, a cuckold \u2014an Everyman, though not the kind that every man would wish to be. \u2014 James Campbell, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Affleck, who once upon a time might\u2019ve played one of those rivals, embraces the role of the quietly seething cuckold . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The hackneyed premise about a film-nerd cuckold in need of psychoanalysis distracts from the real-life dilemma of personal betrayal. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 4 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"And also, for some reason, making his rusty BFF Mater a cuckold . \u2014 Devon Ivie, Vulture , 4 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Tom is also a cuckold : Shiv is cheating on him with her ex Nate (Ashley Zukerman), a floppy-haired political operative. \u2014 Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com , 12 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Even Shakespeare and Chaucer cracked wise about cuckolds , who were often depicted wearing horns. \u2014 Carl Zimmer, New York Times , 8 Apr. 2016"
|
|
],
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|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English cokewold":""
|
|
},
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|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-131119"
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},
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"cuckoo dove":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": any of several large chiefly ground-dwelling doves of a genus ( Macropygia ) distinguished by an elongated graduated tail, widely distributed in southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, and feeding chiefly on seeds, small fruits, and grain":[]
|
|
},
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|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-133451"
|
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},
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"Cucumaria":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": the type genus of Cucumariidae":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccky\u00fck(y)\u0259\u02c8ma(a)r\u0113\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin, from Latin cucumis cucumber + New Latin -aria":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-183046"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckoo-meat":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": wood sorrel sense 1a":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-184627"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckoldly":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having the qualities of a cuckold":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-185844"
|
|
},
|
|
"cucumber root":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": indian cucumber":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-203350"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckoldom":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the state of being a cuckold":[],
|
|
": adultery , cuckoldry":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-d\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-220150"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckoo froth":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": cuckooflower":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"so called from the frothy secretion on the stem popularly believed to be cuckoo spittle":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-013559"
|
|
},
|
|
"cucurb":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": cucurbit sense 2":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"ky\u00fc\u02c8k\u0259rb"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"by shortening":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-034624"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckoo gillyflower":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": ragged robin":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-051422"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckoo lamb":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a late-born lamb":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"so called from its being born in the mating season of the cuckoo":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-054444"
|
|
},
|
|
"cucumber mildew":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": either of two fungi destructive to cucumbers and melons:":[],
|
|
": a downy mildew ( Peronoplasmopara cubensis )":[],
|
|
": a powdery mildew ( Erysiphe cichoracearum )":[],
|
|
": a disease caused by cucumber mildew":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-060709"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckoldry":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the practice of making cuckolds":[],
|
|
": the state of being a cuckold":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8k\u0259-k\u0259l-dr\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The scope of Egan\u2019s vision is astoundingly personal even as the stories rove global: awkward Manhattan hook-ups, luxury safari getaways, suburban cuckoldry , desert kids, dictators, music producers. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 25 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"The idea that evolution encourages women to engage in cyclical cuckoldry was certainly an intriguing one. \u2014 The Economist , 10 May 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-062207"
|
|
},
|
|
"cucumber family":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": cucurbitaceae":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-064113"
|
|
},
|
|
"cuckolds":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a man whose wife is unfaithful":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-(\u02cc)k\u014dld",
|
|
"\u02c8k\u0259-k\u0259ld"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Bloom is a Dubliner, a Jew, a husband and father, a racehorse-fancier, a cuckold \u2014an Everyman, though not the kind that every man would wish to be. \u2014 James Campbell, WSJ , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Affleck, who once upon a time might\u2019ve played one of those rivals, embraces the role of the quietly seething cuckold . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The hackneyed premise about a film-nerd cuckold in need of psychoanalysis distracts from the real-life dilemma of personal betrayal. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 4 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"And also, for some reason, making his rusty BFF Mater a cuckold . \u2014 Devon Ivie, Vulture , 4 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Tom is also a cuckold : Shiv is cheating on him with her ex Nate (Ashley Zukerman), a floppy-haired political operative. \u2014 Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com , 12 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Even Shakespeare and Chaucer cracked wise about cuckolds , who were often depicted wearing horns. \u2014 Carl Zimmer, New York Times , 8 Apr. 2016"
|
|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English cokewold":""
|
|
},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-093215"
|
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},
|
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"cucumber melon":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": mango melon":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"cuck":{
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"type":[
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"transitive verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to punish by the cucking stool":[]
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"back-formation from cucking stool":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-100628"
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},
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"cucumber magnolia":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": cucumber tree sense 1":[]
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-103141"
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"Cuculus":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the type genus of Cuculidae comprising the typical cuckoos":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8k(y)\u00fck(y)\u0259l\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Latin, cuckoo":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-115603"
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},
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"cucullus":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": the anterior dorsal shield of the cephalothorax in pseudoscorpions and Ricinulei":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"ky\u00fc\u02c8k\u0259l\u0259s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Latin, cap, hood":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-121200"
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},
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"cucumber fly":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": melon fly":[]
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-124239"
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},
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"cuckoo clover":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": cuckooflower sense 1":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-130233"
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},
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"Cuculidae":{
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a family of birds (order Cuculiformes ) that comprises the cuckoos, including the anis and roadrunners":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"k\u0259\u02c8k(y)\u00fcl\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Cuculus , type genus + -idae":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-152719"
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},
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"Cuculi":{
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a suborder of Cuculiformes coextensive with the family Cuculidae":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8k(y)\u00fcky\u0259\u02ccl\u012b"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Latin, plural of cuculus cuckoo":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-155721"
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},
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"cucujo":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a luminous click beetle ( Pyrophorus noctilucus ) related to the cucubano and having a similar distribution":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u00fc(\u02cc)j\u014d",
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"-\u00fc(\u02cc)y\u014d"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"modification of Spanish cocuyo, cucuyo , from Taino, from cuyo fire":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-163908"
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},
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"Cuculiformes":{
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a small order of birds comprising the cuckoos, touracos, various related birds, and formerly the parrots and having 10 primaries and the feet zygodactyl except in the touracos in which the outer toe is reversible":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Cuculus + -iformes":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-182525"
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},
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"cuckoo clock":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a wall or shelf clock that announces the hours by sounds resembling a cuckoo's call":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Navarro and PADHiA\u2019s cuckoo clock is featured in a new gallery show, Degrees of Separation, which opens June 25th and will run through July 1st at Julien\u2019s in Beverly Hills, California. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2021",
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"Heavy as their subject matter can be, a sense of humor is central to the Duel Diagnosis ethos, something perfectly encapsulated by their new cuckoo clock . \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2021",
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"The two arrive at a level\u2014inside their home\u2019s mechanical cuckoo clock \u2014where Cody gains the ability to turn back time and May gains the ability to duplicate herself. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 1 Apr. 2021",
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"The first products Amazon is pitching via the program are a smart sticky note printer, a smart nutrition scale, and a smart cuckoo clock . \u2014 Fortune , 18 Feb. 2021",
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"The women live in cottages, each more preposterously shaped than its neighbor: a lighthouse, a circus tent, a toadstool, a cuckoo clock . \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2020",
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"Then there\u2019s the cuckoo clock , which stumped us for a bit with the abundance of numbers and pictures. \u2014 Rachel Yang, EW.com , 18 Nov. 2020",
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"The store is split in half, with two street entrances lending the feeling of a cuckoo clock with two doors and a line along the floor separating day and night, light and dark. \u2014 Andrea Whittle, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 17 Dec. 2019",
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"Proving the point, clock fan Fritz eagerly explores John\u2019s range of timepieces, including grandfather clocks, cuckoo clocks , and more. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Sep. 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1789, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-202157"
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},
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"cuculliform":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": cucullate":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"ky\u00fc\u02c8k\u0259l\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"International Scientific Vocabulary cucull- (from Latin cucullus cap, hood) + -iform":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-203829"
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},
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"cuculiform":{
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
|
": like or belonging to the cuckoos or the Cuculiformes":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-l\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin cucul us cuckoo + English -iform":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-210446"
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},
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"cucurbit":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a vessel or flask for distillation used with or forming part of an alembic":[],
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": a plant of the gourd family":[]
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"ky\u00fc-\u02c8k\u0259r-b\u0259t"
|
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"An even more rapacious cucurbit is found on the opposite fence. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 July 2021",
|
|
"Sow warm-weather plants like nightshades and cucurbits indoors for transplanting in May. Transplant aster, viola, zinnia, marigold, and delphinium from cold frames to beds. \u2014 Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine , 16 Mar. 2020",
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|
"In my own little plot, all the cucurbits \u2014 zucchini, winter squash and cucumbers \u2014 have take on an extraordinary vigor. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 July 2019",
|
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"Pre-soaking large seeds like corn, beans and cucurbits may help them germinate more quickly. \u2014 oregonlive.com , 11 June 2019",
|
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"Striped cucumber beetles lay eggs at the base of cucurbit plants and their larvae then feed on the roots of these plants. \u2014 The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping , 1 June 2017",
|
|
"This includes veggies in the Cucurbitaceae family also called cucurbits or gourds (see gallery of family members below), which contain a class of poisons called cucurbitacins. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 7 Apr. 2018",
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|
"This year marks the 13th annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival, a Seattle tradition to celebrate autumn\u2019s favorite cucurbit . \u2014 Dan Nosowitz, Smithsonian , 26 Oct. 2017",
|
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"Like all cucurbits , the female melon blossom appears to have a small fruit at the stem end of the bloom; male blossoms, which produce the pollen, do not. \u2014 OregonLive.com , 12 Aug. 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English cucurbite , from Anglo-French, from Latin cucurbita gourd":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-220128"
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},
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"cuckhold":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a concave shovel for cutting off the tempered clay coming from the pugmill in brickmaking":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8k\u0259k\u02cch\u014dld",
|
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"\u02c8k\u0259\u02cck\u014d-"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"perhaps from English dialect cuck muck (alteration of English cack entry 2 ) + English hold , verb":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-222639"
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},
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"cuckoo-button":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": burdock sense 1b":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-223934"
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},
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"cucubano":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a large luminous click beetle ( Pyrophorus luminosus ) of the West Indies having a larva also luminous that is predacious on other insects":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"k\u00fc\u02c8k\u00fcb\u0259\u02ccn\u014d"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"American Spanish (Puerto Rico) cuc\u00fabano":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-230752"
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},
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"cuckoo-buds":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun plural but singular or plural in construction"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a common Old World crowfoot ( Ranunculus bulbosus )":[],
|
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": cuckoopint":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-233008"
|
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},
|
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"cucking stool":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a chair formerly used for punishing offenders (such as dishonest tradesmen) by public exposure or ducking in water":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8k\u0259-ki\u014b-"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English cucking stol , literally, defecating chair":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-000531"
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},
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"Cucurbita":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the type genus of Cucurbitaceae comprising tropical herbaceous vines that have a bell-shaped gamopetalous corolla five-lobed to the middle or a little lower, coherent stamens, and a many-seeded fleshy fruit with a hard rind, that include the squashes, pumpkins, vegetable marrows, and certain gourds, and that are now nearly cosmopolitan in cultivation":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-b\u0259t\u0259"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, from Latin, gourd":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-023919"
|
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},
|
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"Cucujidae":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"plural noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": a family of small flattened elongated beetles (suborder Polyphaga) that live mostly under the bark of trees \u2014 compare saw-toothed grain beetle":[]
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u00fcj\u0259-",
|
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"-\u00fcy\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin, from Cucujus , type genus (probably from Spanish cocuyo, cucuyo fire beetle) + -idae":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-041850"
|
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},
|
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"cuckstool":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": cucking stool":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8k\u0259k\u02ccst\u00fcl"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English cukstol , literally, defecating chair, from cukken to defecate (alteration of cakken ) + stol chair":""
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-050109"
|
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},
|
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"cucujid":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": of or relating to the family Cucujidae":[],
|
|
": a cucujid beetle":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"k\u0259\u02c8k\u00fcy\u0259\u0307d",
|
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"\"",
|
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"k\u0259\u02c8k(y)\u00fcj\u0259\u0307d"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin Cucujidae":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-054752"
|
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},
|
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"cuculine":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of, like, or relating to the cuckoos":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8k(y)\u00fck(y)\u0259\u02ccl\u012bn"
|
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Latin cucul us cuckoo + English -ine":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-073231"
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},
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"cuckoo-bread":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": wood sorrel sense 1a":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-080137"
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},
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"cuckoo bee":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of various apoid bees (as members of the family Nomadidae) that live especially in the larval stage as inquilines or parasites in the nests of other bees":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-093157"
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},
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"cucullate":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": having the shape of a hood":[
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"a cucullate leaf"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"ky\u00fc-\u02c8k\u0259-l\u0259t",
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"\u02c8ky\u00fc-k\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Medieval Latin cucullatus , from Latin cucullus hood":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1794, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-100239"
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},
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"cucullaris":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": trapezius":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccky\u00fck\u0259\u02c8la(a)r\u0259\u0307s"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Latin cucullus cap + -aris -ar":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-135217"
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},
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"cuculla":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"k\u0259\u02c8ku\u0307l\u0259",
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"ky\u00fc\u02c8k\u0259l\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Medieval Latin, from Late Latin, cowl":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-141443"
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},
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"cuckoo's-sandy":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": meadow pipit":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"so called from its nest being favored by the cuckoo":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-170825"
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},
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"cuckoo's-leader":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": wryneck":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"so called from the belief that it arrives in the spring shortly before the cuckoo":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-181140"
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}
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} |