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"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "relictelor",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"feminine",
"genitive",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "relict m or n (feminine singular relictă, masculine plural relicți, feminine and neuter plural relicte)",
"name": "ro-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "ro-decl-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Romanian adjectives",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian terms borrowed from German",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from German",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin",
"ro:Biology"
],
"glosses": [
"relict"
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"relict",
"relict#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(biology) relict"
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "relict"
}
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