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totem

Ojibwe (o)doodem means a person's clan or kin group; English traders and later anthropologists turned it into a general word for a sacred emblem, and through Frazer, Durkheim and Freud it became a scholarly term in every language, Chinese 圖騰 included.

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Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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