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"etymology_text": "The plant's name is derived from the figure of the Wandering Jew, presumably at least partly from the tendency of those plants to spread through a garden (i.e. wander).",
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"ref": "1974 April 13, “Untitled”, in Gay Community News, page 3",
"text": "GCN needs donations of plants to hang in its windows...Should be plants that like a bright but sunless northern exposure...plants that are happy hanging too; like ivies, wandering jews, spider plants, philodendrons, mother-of-thousands, what have you?? Cuttings O.K., need pots and a sprayer also.",
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"Any plant of three species of spiderworts, Tradescantia pallida, Tradescantia fluminensis, and Tradescantia zebrina."
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"word": "purpurblad"
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"sense": "Tradescantia fluminensis",
"word": "pletyka"
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"word": "skvallerreva"
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"_dis": "43 57",
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"name": "Saxifragales order plants",
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"The plant Saxifraga stolonifera."
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"ref": "1974 April 13, “Untitled”, in Gay Community News, page 3",
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"sense": "Tradescantia pallida",
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"word": "purpurblad"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Tradescantia fluminensis",
"word": "pletyka"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "közönséges pletyka"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "Tradescantia zebrina",
"word": "juorukki"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Tradescantia zebrina",
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"word": "zebrablad"
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