See Erica on Wiktionary
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"text": "But Erica Mann Jong is, alas, just as patriarchal as Erica Jong. When Thomas Mann's daughter, Erika, was alive, the confusion of names bothered me. My parents had met and admired Thomas Mann. They loved his daughter's name and wished creativity upon me. Erica means white flower in German, and queen in old Scandinavian, but to them, it meant writer.",
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"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "eudicots"
},
{
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "core eudicots"
},
{
"english": "clades",
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"translation": "clades",
"word": "asterids"
},
{
"english": "order",
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"translation": "order",
"word": "Ericales"
},
{
"english": "family",
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"translation": "family",
"word": "Ericaceae"
},
{
"english": "subfamily",
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"translation": "subfamily",
"word": "Ericoideae"
},
{
"english": "tribe",
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"translation": "tribe",
"word": "Ericeae"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"english": "type species",
"translation": "type species",
"word": "Erica cinerea"
},
{
"english": "tree heath",
"translation": "tree heath",
"word": "Erica arborea"
},
{
"english": "selected other species",
"translation": "selected other species",
"word": "Erica sociorum"
},
{
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "Erica subg. Chlamydanthe"
},
{
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "Erica subg. Ectasis"
},
{
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "Erica subg. Erica"
},
{
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "Erica subg. Platystoma"
},
{
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "Erica subg. Stellanthe"
},
{
"sense": "genus of heaths etc",
"word": "Erica subg. Syringodea – subgenera"
},
{
"english": "sole species",
"sense": "genus of spiders",
"translation": "sole species",
"word": "Erica eugenia"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"mul:Botany",
"mul:Taxonomic names (genus)"
],
"glosses": [
"A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – heaths and heathers."
],
"links": [
[
"botany",
"botany"
],
[
"genus",
"genus#English"
],
[
"family",
"family#English"
],
[
"Ericaceae",
"Ericaceae#Translingual"
],
[
"heath",
"heath"
],
[
"heather",
"heather"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(botany) A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – heaths and heathers."
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"botany",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"mul:Taxonomic names (genus)",
"mul:Zoology"
],
"glosses": [
"A taxonomic genus within the family Salticidae – certain jumping spiders."
],
"links": [
[
"zoology",
"zoology"
],
[
"genus",
"genus#English"
],
[
"family",
"family#English"
],
[
"Salticidae",
"Salticidae#Translingual"
],
[
"jumping spider",
"jumping spider"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(zoology) A taxonomic genus within the family Salticidae – certain jumping spiders."
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"natural-sciences",
"zoology"
]
}
],
"word": "Erica"
}
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