According to both the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary, in ancient Greek the bivalve shells you might find at the beach were called ostrakon.

根据《牛津英语词典》和《美国传统英语词典》的词条，在古希腊，那些您可能在沙滩上看到的双壳贝被称为ostrakon。

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Additional references such as the American heritage Dictionary of the English Language provide solid and authoritative proof to the cited words' origins.

比方英语的美国遗产字典的附加叁考提供固体和权势巨子的证明给被引证的字劈头。

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Out of it a new lexicon was born: the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1969.

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According to Dictionary.com, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, included the term with essentially the same definition in 2000.

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