"maidenhair" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmeɪdənhɛː/ [UK], /ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ/ [US] Forms: maidenhairs [plural]
Etymology: From maiden + hair. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|maiden|hair}} maiden + hair Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} maidenhair (countable and uncountable, plural maidenhairs)
  1. (uncountable, poetic) A girl or woman's pubic hair. Tags: poetic, uncountable Categories (topical): Hair Categories (lifeform): Ferns, Heather family plants
    Sense id: en-maidenhair-en-noun-ANagN~Lh Disambiguation of Hair: 63 31 6 Disambiguation of Ferns: 32 38 30 Disambiguation of Heather family plants: 42 28 30
  2. Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Ferns Synonyms (fern): maidenhair fern Translations (fern): ἀδίαντον (adíanton) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), πολύτριχον (polútrikhon) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), كُزْبَرَة الْبِئْر (kuzbara l-biʔr) [feminine] (Arabic), قزيبرة البير (qzībrat el-bīr) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), вене́рин ко́съм (venérin kósǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), богоро́дичен ко́съм (bogoródičen kósǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), адиантум (adiantum) [masculine] (Bulgarian), falzilla [feminine] (Catalan), capil·lera [feminine] (Catalan), netík [masculine] (Czech), phithophthethela (Dacian), neidonhiussaniainen (Finnish), neidonadiantumi (Finnish), capillaire [feminine] (French), adiante [masculine] (French), Frauenhaarfarn [masculine] (German), Frauenhaar [neuter] (German), Venushaar [neuter] (German), ʻiwaʻiwa (Hawaiian), cos dhubh [feminine] (Irish), folt bé [masculine] (Irish), capelvenere [masculine] (Italian), шолпаншаш (şolpanşaş) (Kazakh), adiantum [neuter] (Latin), capillus Veneris [masculine] (Latin), tursin il-bir [masculine] (Maltese), makawe tapairu (Maori), huruhuru tapairu (Maori), ձարխոտ (jarxot) (Middle Armenian), niekropień [masculine] (Polish), złotowłos [masculine] (Polish), avenca [feminine] (Portuguese), părul-fetei (Romanian), вене́рин во́лос (venérin vólos) [masculine] (Russian), адиа́нтум (adiántum) [masculine] (Russian), góspīn vlásak [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), adiantum [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), venušin vlas [neuter] (Slovak), adiantum [masculine] (Slovak), venerini lāsci [masculine, plural] (Slovene), adiantum [masculine] (Slovene), adiantumsläkte [neuter] (Swedish), baldırıkara (Turkish), вене́рин во́лос (venéryn vólos) [masculine] (Ukrainian), адиа́нтум (adyántum) [masculine] (Ukrainian), адіант (adiant) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ladiant (Volapük), gwallt y forwyn [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-maidenhair-en-noun-Dwi9CV~a Disambiguation of Ferns: 32 38 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 52 27 Disambiguation of 'fern': 0 100 0 Disambiguation of 'fern': 0 100 0
  3. (Canada, US, now regional) Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry. Tags: Canada, US, countable, regional, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Ferns
    Sense id: en-maidenhair-en-noun-jvPUN4fq Disambiguation of Ferns: 32 38 30 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, Regional English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: maiden-hair Derived forms: climbing maidenhair fern, maidenhair moss, maidenhair spleenwort, maidenhair tree, maidenhair vine, northern maidenhair

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          "ref": "1979, Georgianna Bell, Passionate Jade, page 326",
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          "ref": "1987, Pierre Clitandre, Cathedral of the August Heat, page 152",
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          "ref": "2013, John F. Deane, Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems",
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          "lang": "Czech",
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fern",
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fern",
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          "sense": "fern",
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "haw",
          "lang": "Hawaiian",
          "sense": "fern",
          "word": "ʻiwaʻiwa"
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "fern",
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "folt bé"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "capelvenere"
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "kk",
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          "roman": "şolpanşaş",
          "sense": "fern",
          "word": "шолпаншаш"
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "fern",
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "mt",
          "lang": "Maltese",
          "sense": "fern",
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          "word": "tursin il-bir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "fern",
          "word": "makawe tapairu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "fern",
          "word": "huruhuru tapairu"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "niekropień"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "złotowłos"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "avenca"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "fern",
          "word": "părul-fetei"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "venérin vólos",
          "sense": "fern",
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "adiántum",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "адиа́нтум"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "fern",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "góspīn vlásak"
        },
        {
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          "sense": "fern",
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          "sense": "fern",
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          "sense": "fern",
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          "sense": "fern",
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      ],
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeɪdənhɛː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "maiden-hair"
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  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "maidenhair"
  ],
  "word": "maidenhair"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Ferns",
    "en:Hair",
    "en:Heather family plants"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "climbing maidenhair fern"
    },
    {
      "word": "maidenhair moss"
    },
    {
      "word": "maidenhair spleenwort"
    },
    {
      "word": "maidenhair tree"
    },
    {
      "word": "maidenhair vine"
    },
    {
      "word": "northern maidenhair"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "maiden",
        "3": "hair"
      },
      "expansion": "maiden + hair",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From maiden + hair.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maidenhairs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "maidenhair (countable and uncountable, plural maidenhairs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses",
          "text": "He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's into the bowl",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Georgianna Bell, Passionate Jade, page 326",
          "text": "His fingers tore at her maidenhair. Gasping, she recoiled for long enough to allow him entry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Pierre Clitandre, Cathedral of the August Heat, page 152",
          "text": "Some said they'd seen her over by Death's-Door, with bloodstains on her dress, which was so white and transparent they were seized with shame and fear at the faint beauty of her breasts and the eternal modesty of her maidenhair.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Robert Solotaroff, Bernard Malamud: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 116",
          "text": "She grabbed at her maidenhair as the garment eluded her frantic grasp and formed a puddle of cloth at her feet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, John F. Deane, Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems",
          "text": "She turns and her small breasts are firm in the fading light, the flower of her navel, the darkening delta of her maidenhair and her thighs rising out of the water, the water tiny golden gifts against her skin;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A girl or woman's pubic hair."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "pubic hair",
          "pubic hair"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, poetic) A girl or woman's pubic hair."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 178",
          "text": "Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Adiantum",
          "Adiantum#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "fern",
          "fern"
        ],
        [
          "Adiantum capillus-veneris",
          "Adiantum capillus-veneris#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
        "Regional English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "regional",
          "regional#English"
        ],
        [
          "ericaceous",
          "ericaceous"
        ],
        [
          "checkerberry",
          "checkerberry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US, now regional) Either of two ericaceous plants, the creeping snowberry or the checkerberry."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "countable",
        "regional",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeɪdənhɛː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeɪdənhɛəɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "maiden-hair"
    },
    {
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "maidenhair fern"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kuzbara l-biʔr",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "كُزْبَرَة الْبِئْر"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qzībrat el-bīr",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "قزيبرة البير"
    },
    {
      "code": "axm",
      "lang": "Middle Armenian",
      "roman": "jarxot",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "ձարխոտ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "venérin kósǎm",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вене́рин ко́съм"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bogoródičen kósǎm",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "богоро́дичен ко́съм"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "adiantum",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "адиантум"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "falzilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "capil·lera"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "netík"
    },
    {
      "code": "xdc",
      "lang": "Dacian",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "phithophthethela"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "neidonhiussaniainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "neidonadiantumi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "capillaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adiante"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Frauenhaarfarn"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Frauenhaar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Venushaar"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "adíanton",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ἀδίαντον"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "polútrikhon",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "πολύτριχον"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "ʻiwaʻiwa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cos dhubh"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "folt bé"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capelvenere"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "şolpanşaş",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "шолпаншаш"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "adiantum"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capillus Veneris"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tursin il-bir"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "makawe tapairu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "huruhuru tapairu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "niekropień"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "złotowłos"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "avenca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "părul-fetei"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "venérin vólos",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вене́рин во́лос"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "adiántum",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "адиа́нтум"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "góspīn vlásak"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "adiantum"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "venušin vlas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adiantum"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "venerini lāsci"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "adiantum"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "adiantumsläkte"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "baldırıkara"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "venéryn vólos",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вене́рин во́лос"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "adyántum",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "адиа́нтум"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "adiant",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "адіант"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "fern",
      "word": "ladiant"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fern",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gwallt y forwyn"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "maidenhair"
  ],
  "word": "maidenhair"
}

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