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32 lines
1.7 KiB
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{
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"kauri":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a light-colored to brown resin from the kauri tree found as a fossil in the ground or collected from living trees and used especially in varnishes and linoleum":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8kau\u0307(-\u0259)r-\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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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The trunks of ancient kauri trees indicated that the Laschamp Excursion caused major extinctions. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
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"Scientists analyzed the rings found in ancient New Zealand kauri trees, some which had been preserved in sediments for more than 40,000 years, to create a timescale of how Earth's atmosphere changed over time. \u2014 Amy Woodyatt, CNN , 19 Feb. 2021",
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"In the past decade, a unique strain of phytophthora has been identified as targeting kauri . \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Jan. 2020",
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"Somewhere in the middle of New Zealand, there is a kauri tree stump (Agathis australis) that should not be alive. \u2014 Kelly Mayes, Science | AAAS , 25 July 2019",
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"Here are five prime suggestions, from a small forest in England to the gigantic kauri trees of New Zealand\u2019s Waipoua Forest. \u2014 George Stone, National Geographic , 29 Oct. 2019",
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"Sudden atmospherically driven changes in water relations in adjacent kauri trees were very rapidly and inversely mirrored in the living stump's water status. \u2014 Fox News , 26 July 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Maori kawri":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050709"
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}
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} |