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"cellular#English"
],
[
"growth",
"growth#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(medicine, pathology) cancer (disease characterized by uncontrolled cellular growth)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"pathology",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples",
"lv:Botany"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "clover cancer",
"text": "āboliņa vēzis",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "fruit tree cancer",
"text": "augļu koku vēzis",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "potato cancer",
"text": "kartupeļu vēzis",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plant disease characterized by growths on the trunk or roots"
],
"links": [
[
"botany",
"botany"
],
[
"plant",
"plant"
],
[
"disease",
"disease"
],
[
"characterize",
"characterize"
],
[
"growth",
"growth"
],
[
"trunk",
"trunk"
],
[
"roots",
"roots"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(botany) plant disease characterized by growths on the trunk or roots"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"botany",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[vɛ̂ːzis]"
},
{
"audio": "Lv-vēzis.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/Lv-v%C4%93zis.ogg/Lv-v%C4%93zis.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Lv-v%C4%93zis.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lv:Vēzis",
"lv:Vēzis (slimība)",
"lv:Vēži"
],
"word": "vēzis"
}
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