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"text": "An individual flower that is subtended by a scale leaf at its junction with the stem of a plant; a rudimentary leaf."
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"(botany) A small flat leaf resembling a scale, such as on many conifers."
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"(botany) A small modified leaf, especially a colorless membranous one, such as on a rhizome or forming part of a bulb."
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "modified leaf, forming part of a bulb",
"word": "allevél"
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],
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