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"Translingual proper nouns",
"Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"mul:Taxonomic names (genus)"
],
"glosses": [
"A taxonomic genus within the family Amaryllidaceae – daffodils."
],
"links": [
[
"genus",
"genus#English"
],
[
"family",
"family#English"
],
[
"Amaryllidaceae",
"Amaryllidaceae#Translingual"
],
[
"daffodil",
"daffodil"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "Narcissus"
}
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