the Irish Famine (n)
the Great Hunger (n)
the Great Starvation (n)
the Great Calamity (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 11
def a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight
def between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
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Hypernym famine
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Hyponym famine

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