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vernacular
1. a local style of architecture, in which ordinary houses are built
2. designating or relating to the common name of an animal or plant
3. built in the local style of ordinary houses, rather than a grand architectural style


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" she exclaimed, and then, in the vernacular of the great apes which constant association with the anthropoids had rendered the common language of the Oparians: "You have come back to me
"I am Tarzan of the Apes," he answered in the vernacular of the anthropoids.
Bettles was the spokesman, and his argument, tersely and offensively vernacular, was unanimously applauded.
 
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