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"topics": [
"chemistry",
"geography",
"geology",
"mineralogy",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"it:Minerals"
],
"glosses": [
"selenite"
],
"links": [
[
"mineralogy",
"mineralogy"
],
[
"selenite",
"selenite#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mineralogy) selenite"
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"chemistry",
"geography",
"geology",
"mineralogy",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/se.leˈni.te/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ite"
}
],
"word": "selenite"
}
{
"called_from": "page/2517",
"msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: wikipedia {}",
"path": [
"selenite",
"wikipedia"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "selenite",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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