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"ref": "2010, Jarda Cervenka, Howls From The Other Side: Poems and Collages, Xlibris",
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"cherry blossom, sakura (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree)"
],
"links": [
[
"cherry blossom",
"cherry blossom"
],
[
"sakura",
"#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"wikipedia": [
"es:Sakura (cerezo)"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/saˈkuɾa/"
},
{
"ipa": "[saˈku.ɾa]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uɾa"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sákura"
}
],
"word": "sakura"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": ing-hue vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"sakura"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "sakura",
"trace": ""
}
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