dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/cte_MW.json
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{
"CTE":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":{
"chronic traumatic encephalopathy":[
"Researchers from the National Institutes of Health said Thursday the former NFL star's abnormalities are consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE .",
"\u2014 Barry Wilner"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-204021"
},
"cten-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": comb":[
"cten acanthus",
"cteno phore"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek kten-, kteno- , from kten-, kteis":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-134333"
},
"Ctenacanthus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of Upper Devonian and Lower Permian sharks related to Cladoselache and known chiefly from its very stout fin spines":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cct\u0113n-",
"\u02ccten\u0259\u02c8kan(t)th\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from cten- + -acanthus":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181609"
},
"ctenophore":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun or adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a phylum (Ctenophora) of marine animals superficially resembling jellyfishes but having biradial symmetry and swimming by means of eight bands of transverse ciliated plates":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0113-",
"\u02c8te-n\u0259-\u02ccf\u022fr"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These parasitic amphipods bore to their host\u2019s stomach, sometimes in large enough numbers that the victim looks more like a strainer than a jellyfish or ctenophore . \u2014 Leslie Nemo, Scientific American , 8 June 2021",
"Mike Ford and Allen Collins spotted the ctenophore and recognized it as a new species. \u2014 Lauren M. Johnson, CNN , 28 Nov. 2020",
"Both papers, which employed more extensive data and more sophisticated analysis methods than the 2008 effort, support the ctenophore -first tree. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Mar. 2015",
"Moroz and his collaborators published a second ctenophore genome, the sea gooseberry, in Nature in 2014. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Mar. 2015",
"By far the most controversial of these changes was the suggestion that ctenophores should replace sponges as the earliest branch of animals. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Mar. 2015",
"Comb Jellies Comb jellies aren\u2019t jellyfish, but a separate group called ctenophores which don\u2019t have numerous tentacles or pack a sting. \u2014 National Geographic , 30 June 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"ultimately from Greek kten-, kteis + pherein to carry \u2014 more at bear":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1882, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024936"
}
}