See meiosis on Wiktionary
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"biology",
"cytology",
"medicine",
"natural-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"id:meiosis"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/meiˈosis/",
"tags": [
"Standard-Indonesian"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[me.iˈo.sɪs]",
"tags": [
"Standard-Indonesian"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-osis"
}
],
"word": "meiosis"
}
{
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{
"args": {
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"2": "grc",
"3": "μείωσις"
},
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"name": "bor+"
}
],
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{
"form": "meiosis",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "meiosis f (plural meiosis)",
"name": "es-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"me‧io‧sis"
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/osis",
"Rhymes:Spanish/osis/3 syllables",
"Spanish 3-syllable words",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"es:Biology"
],
"glosses": [
"meiosis"
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"meiosis",
"meiosis#English"
]
],
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"(biology) meiosis"
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"natural-sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"es:meiosis"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/meˈjosis/"
},
{
"ipa": "[meˈjo.sis]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-osis"
}
],
"word": "meiosis"
}
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