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                                "Old English hw\u00e6l, of Germanic origin"
                            ],
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                                        "American English"
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                                        "a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing."
                                    ],
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                                            "id": "mammal",
                                            "text": "Mammal"
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                                        {
                                            "text": "Order Cetacea. See baleen whale and toothed whale",
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                                        "very large marine mammal with streamlined hairless body, horizontal tail fin, and blowhole on top of head for breathing"
                                    ],
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                                            "language": "en",
                                            "text": "cetacean"
                                        },
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                                            "text": "leviathan"
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                            "text": "a whale of a \u2014"
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                                "late 18th century: variant of wale"
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                                        "beat; hit"
                                    ],
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                                            "text": "Dad came upstairs and whaled me"
                                        },
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                                            "notes": [
                                                {
                                                    "text": "no object",
                                                    "type": "grammaticalNote"
                                                }
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