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"sprue#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
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}
{
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{
"word": "antisprue"
}
],
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"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "en",
"3": "sprue",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "English sprue",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "en",
"3": "sprue"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English sprue",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "sprue f (uncountable)",
"name": "it-noun"
}
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"hyphenation": [
"sprù‧e"
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian 2-syllable words",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian feminine nouns",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian terms borrowed from English",
"Italian terms derived from English",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Italian uncountable nouns",
"Rhymes:Italian/ue",
"Rhymes:Italian/ue/2 syllables",
"it:Diseases"
],
"glosses": [
"sprue"
],
"links": [
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
],
[
"sprue",
"sprue#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(pathology) sprue"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"pathology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈspru.e/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ue"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "spru"
}
],
"word": "sprue"
}
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