See nativism on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "nativism n (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gpd": "nativismelor",
"gpi": "nativisme",
"gsd": "nativismului",
"gsi": "nativism",
"n": "sg",
"npd": "nativismele",
"npi": "nativisme",
"nsd": "nativismul",
"nsi": "nativism",
"vp": "nativismelor",
"vs": "nativismule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"nativism"
],
"links": [
[
"nativism",
"nativism#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "nativism"
}
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