See excrescence on Wiktionary
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"masculine"
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"word": "нарост"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "excrecencia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "utväxt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "epenthesis of a consonant",
"word": "inetimologikus mássalhangzó (betoldás)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Excrescence"
],
"word": "excrescence"
}
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