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{
"Brythonic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the division of the Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Cornish, and Breton":[],
": the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"bri-\u02c8th\u00e4-nik"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Welsh Brython Briton, Britons (from British Celtic *britton- ) + -ic entry 1":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1884, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1879, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-031936"
},
"bryozoan":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a phylum (Bryozoa) of aquatic mostly marine invertebrate animals that reproduce by budding and usually form permanently attached branched or mossy colonies":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccbr\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8z\u014d-\u0259n"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then there are the bryozoans , a phylum of animals all its own. \u2014 Joanna Klein, New York Times , 31 Mar. 2020",
"The most common critters were bryozoans \u2014tiny invertebrates. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 30 Aug. 2019",
"Hunter speculates that crinoid rafts could have ferried additional stowaways including plants, bryozoans and crustaceans. \u2014 Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian , 12 Aug. 2019",
"Other species found on shorelines included clams, ballan wrasse and ling, bryozoans and a harbour porpoise. \u2014 Sean Rossman, USA TODAY , 6 Mar. 2018",
"The warm coastal waters surrounding Gondwana were perfect for new kinds of animals, like brachiopods, crinoids, ostracodes, cephalopods, corals, and bryozoans . \u2014 Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica , 21 Nov. 2017",
"According to Peter Dockrill of Science Alert, the blob is a type of bryozoan , which begin life as a single invertebrate organism. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 7 Sep. 2017",
"Ian Walker is a biology professor at the University of British Columbia who has studied bryozoans . \u2014 Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic , 31 Aug. 2017",
"After the first bryozoan sighting in Stanley Park, others were spotted in the pond. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian , 7 Sep. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Bryozoa , from Greek bryon + New Latin -zoa":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080424"
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"Brython":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of the British branch of Celts : briton":[],
": a speaker of one of the Brythonic languages \u2014 compare goidel":[]
},
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"\u02c8bri\u02ccth\u00e4n"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Welsh":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083225"
},
"bry-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
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": moss":[
"Bry aceae",
"bry ology"
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, moss, from Greek bryo- moss, catkin, from bryon ; perhaps akin to Old High German kr\u016bt herb, cabbage":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172742"
},
"bryozoologist":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a specialist on the Bryozoa":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6br\u012b\u0259 +"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"blend of New Latin Bryozoa and English zoologist":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020515"
},
"Brya":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of prickly shrubs and small trees (family Leguminosae) of the Caribbean region that yield a very durable hard wood \u2014 see granadilla tree":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8br\u012b\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, tamarisk, from Greek":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-095642"
},
"Bryozoa":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
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": a small phylum of aquatic animals that reproduce by budding, that usually form branching, flat, or mosslike colonies permanently attached on stones or seaweeds and enclosed by an external cuticle soft and gelatinous or rigid and chitinous or calcareous, and that consist of complex zooids each having an alimentary canal with distinct mouth and anus surrounded by a true coelom and associated with a protrusible lophophore \u2014 see avicularium , vibraculum ; bugula , entoprocta , gymnolaemata , phylactolaemata":[],
": a class or other division of Molluscoidea comprising the Bryozoa and the Entoprocta":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccbr\u012b\u0259\u02c8z\u014d\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from bry- + -zoa":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050213"
},
"Bryopsis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Bryopsidaceae ) of marine green algae that occur in warmer seas and have nonseptate filaments forming a rhizomatous prostrate base and an upright pinnately branched portion":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"br\u012b\u02c8\u00e4ps\u0259\u0307s"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from bry- + -opsis":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-053627"
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"Bryopsidaceae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of marine green algae (order Siphonales) having the characteristics of the genus Bryopsis":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)br\u012b\u02cc\u00e4ps\u0259\u02c8d\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Bryopsid-, Bryopsis , type genus + -aceae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-193443"
},
"bryology":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": moss life or biology":[],
": a branch of botany that deals with the bryophytes":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"br\u012b-\u02c8\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek bryon moss (akin to Greek bryein to grow luxuriantly) + International Scientific Vocabulary -logy":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-023036"
},
"bryophytes":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a division (Bryophyta) of nonflowering plants comprising the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8br\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012bt"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Surprisingly, the team identified 75 different species of bryophytes , including 10 types of liverworts, according to a press release. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 1 Nov. 2019",
"Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Innsbruck recovered at least 75 species of bryophytes , non-vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts, that had been preserved in ice with Otzi. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 31 Oct. 2019",
"Around 70 percent of the bryophyte species found in and around \u00d6tzi's high-altitude remains do not grow in the nival zone, the highest region of alpine vegetation which starts around 9,850 feet in this part of the Alps. \u2014 Megan Gannon, National Geographic , 30 Oct. 2019",
"Anthocerotae Anthocerotae, also known as hornworts, are the third type of bryophyte . \u2014 Kevin Espiritu For Partselect.com, Good Housekeeping , 29 Aug. 2017",
"Oishi said humid cities where moss thrives could benefit most from using bryophytes \u2013 a collective term for mosses, hornworts and liverworts \u2013 as bioindicators, adding moss could be monitored in its natural environment or cultivated for analysis. \u2014 Sophie Hares, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"ultimately from Greek bryon + phyton plant; akin to Greek phyein to bring forth \u2014 more at be":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-120518"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": any of a division (Bryophyta) of nonflowering plants comprising the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts":[]
},
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"\u02c8br\u012b-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012bt"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Surprisingly, the team identified 75 different species of bryophytes , including 10 types of liverworts, according to a press release. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 1 Nov. 2019",
"Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Innsbruck recovered at least 75 species of bryophytes , non-vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts, that had been preserved in ice with Otzi. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 31 Oct. 2019",
"Around 70 percent of the bryophyte species found in and around \u00d6tzi's high-altitude remains do not grow in the nival zone, the highest region of alpine vegetation which starts around 9,850 feet in this part of the Alps. \u2014 Megan Gannon, National Geographic , 30 Oct. 2019",
"Anthocerotae Anthocerotae, also known as hornworts, are the third type of bryophyte . \u2014 Kevin Espiritu For Partselect.com, Good Housekeeping , 29 Aug. 2017",
"Oishi said humid cities where moss thrives could benefit most from using bryophytes \u2013 a collective term for mosses, hornworts and liverworts \u2013 as bioindicators, adding moss could be monitored in its natural environment or cultivated for analysis. \u2014 Sophie Hares, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"ultimately from Greek bryon + phyton plant; akin to Greek phyein to bring forth \u2014 more at be":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1878, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-145505"
},
"bryony":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Bryonia ) of tendril-bearing vines of the gourd family with large leaves and red or black fruit":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8br\u012b-\u0259-n\u0113"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the speed, the swiftness, walking into clarity, Like last year\u2019s bryony are gone. \u2014 Anthony Lan, The New Yorker , 5 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Latin bryonia , from Greek bry\u014dnia ; akin to Greek bryein":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-174448"
},
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"plural noun"
],
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": a division of nonflowering plants comprising the mosses and liverworts characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots, by little or no organized vascular tissue, by multicellular archegonia and antheridia in which only some of the cells are sporogenous, and by a clear-cut alternation of generations, the sporophyte being without chlorophyll and remaining attached to and nourished by the gametophyte \u2014 see hepaticae , musci":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"br\u012b\u02c8\u00e4f\u0259t\u0259"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from bry- + -phyta":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-174618"
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"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": moss life or biology":[],
": a branch of botany that deals with the bryophytes":[]
},
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"br\u012b-\u02c8\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek bryon moss (akin to Greek bryein to grow luxuriantly) + International Scientific Vocabulary -logy":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-203722"
},
"Bryum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Bryaceae) of mosses containing species distinguished by mostly erect and tufted gametophytes and symmetrical short-necked capsules \u2014 compare mnium":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8br\u012b\u0259m"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, alteration of Latin bryon moss, from Greek":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-205250"
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"Bryaceae":{
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"adjective",
"plural noun"
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"definitions":{
": a family of acrocarpous mosses (order Eubryales) having symmetrical often pendent capsules with a double peristome, the inner one being ciliate \u2014 compare bryum":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"br\u012b\u02c8\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Bryum , type genus + -aceae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-213605"
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"Bryales":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an order or subclass of Musci comprising the mosses that have the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow cylindrical intercellular space \u2014 compare eubryales":[]
},
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"br\u012b\u02c8\u0101(\u02cc)l\u0113z"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Bryum + -ales":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-222055"
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"biographical name",
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"William Jennings 1860\u20131925 American lawyer and politician":[],
"city in east central Texas population 76,201":[]
},
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"\u02c8br\u012b-\u0259n"
],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-051431"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or characteristic of the division of the Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Cornish, and Breton":[],
": the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"bri-\u02c8th\u00e4-nik"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Welsh Brython Briton, Britons (from British Celtic *britton- ) + -ic entry 1":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1884, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
"1879, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-061218"
},
"bryobia mite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": clover mite":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)br\u012b\u00a6\u014db\u0113\u0259-"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Bryobia genus of mites, from bry- + -bia":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-074819"
},
"brynza":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a ewe's-milk cheese made in central Europe and Asia Minor":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8brinz\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably borrowed from Slovak or Polish bryndza , borrowed from Romanian br\u00e2nz\u0103 (traditional spelling br\u00eenz\u0103 ), of pre-Romance origin":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-102800"
},
"bryophyllum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": kalanchoe":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccbr\u012b-\u0259-\u02c8fi-l\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek bryon + phyllon leaf \u2014 more at blade":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1868, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-103706"
},
"Brynhild":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Valkyrie who is waked from an enchanted sleep by Sigurd and later has him killed when he forgets her":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8brin-\u02cchild"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Old Norse Brynhildr":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1590, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-110239"
},
"Bryde's whale":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a slender baleen whale ( Balaenoptera edeni synonym B. brydei ) of warm seas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans that is dark gray above and white below and has three parallel ridges that run from the snout to the blowholes":[
"Bryde's whales \u2014leviathans more than 40 feet long\u2014surface, then roll languidly back underwater, flashing their white bellies, circling back over and over.",
"\u2014 Melissa Gaskill , Nature Conservancy , Summer 2003"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8br\u00fc-d\u0259z-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"after Johan Bryde \u20201925 Norwegian shipowner and whaler":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1913, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-122401"
},
"Bryce Canyon National Park":{
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"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"canyon in southern Utah containing curiously eroded pinnacles":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8br\u012bs"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-125059"
},
"Bryanite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of a Methodist body formerly called Bible Christians founded in England by William O'Bryan in 1815":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8br\u012b\u0259\u02ccn\u012bt"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"William O' Bryan \u20201868 English preacher + English -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-132528"
},
"bryanthus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of Old World prostrate mat-forming evergreen heaths (family Ericaceae) with 4-parted flowers in racemes that was formerly included in Phyllodoce":[],
": any plant of the genus Bryanthus or sometimes of the genus Phyllodoce":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"br\u012b\u02c8an(t)th\u0259s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from bry- + -anthus":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-141329"
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"Bryansk":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"city of Russia in Europe southwest of Moscow population 461,000":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"br\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4nsk"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-190535"
},
"Bryant":{
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"biographical name"
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"definitions":{
"William Cullen 1794\u20131878 American poet and editor":[]
},
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"\u02c8br\u012b-\u0259nt"
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-111229"
}
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