See ambergris on Wiktionary
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"text": "Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.",
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"text": "Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.",
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"lang": "Arabic",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "龍涎香"
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "龙涎香"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "މާވަހަރު"
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"word": "ámbar gris"
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"word": "竜涎香"
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"word": "ആംബർഗ്രീസ്"
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "𐭠𐭬𐭭𐭫"
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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{
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"word": "ambră"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"word": "ámbar gris"
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{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambari"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambra"
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "అంబరు"
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "am-pan-kîi-bplaa",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "อำพันขี้ปลา"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
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"alt": "龍涎香",
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "long diên hương"
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