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hydro-aëroplane
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hydro-aëroplane,
An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power; -- now usually referred to as a seaplane . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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