See fabella on Wiktionary
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"form": "fabellae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "noun",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "fabella f",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fabella<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"la:Anatomy"
],
"glosses": [
"fabella (the posterior analogue of the anterior patella)"
],
"links": [
[
"anatomy",
"anatomy"
],
[
"fabella",
"fabella#English"
],
[
"patella",
"patella#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(anatomy) fabella (the posterior analogue of the anterior patella)"
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"anatomy",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "fabella"
}
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