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"sense": "art or practice",
"word": "muotoonleikkaus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "art or practice",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Formschnittgärtnerei"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fytoglyptikí",
"sense": "art or practice",
"word": "φυτογλυπτική"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kipoglyptikí",
"sense": "art or practice",
"word": "κηπογλυπτική"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "art or practice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tordhearadh"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "art or practice",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tocwaith"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "shrub",
"word": "muotoonleikattu pensas"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "shrub",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "topiaire"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fytóglypto",
"sense": "shrub",
"word": "φυτόγλυπτο"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"topiary"
],
"word": "topiary"
}
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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