See -bu on Wiktionary
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]
},
{
"categories": [
"nn:Botany"
],
"glosses": [
"-oecious Used to form adjectives denoting the arrangement of sexual organs in plants."
],
"links": [
[
"botany",
"botany"
],
[
"-oecious",
"-oecious"
],
[
"adjective",
"adjective#English"
],
[
"sexual",
"sexual#English"
],
[
"organ",
"organ#English"
],
[
"plant",
"plant#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(botany) -oecious Used to form adjectives denoting the arrangement of sexual organs in plants."
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"botany",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "-bu"
}
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