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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:",
"text": "Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
"text": "And as for the other whale, why, I’ll agree to get more oil by chopping up and trying out these three masts of ours, than he’ll get from that bundle of bones; though, now that I think of it, it may contain something worth a good deal more than oil; yes, ambergris.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, produced in the intestines of the sperm whale. It is used in perfumes."
],
"links": [
[
"solid",
"solid"
],
[
"waxy",
"waxy"
],
[
"flammable",
"flammable"
],
[
"grey",
"grey"
],
[
"black",
"black"
],
[
"intestine",
"intestine"
],
[
"sperm whale",
"sperm whale"
],
[
"perfume",
"perfume"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈæm.bɚ.ɡɹɪs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈæm.bɚ.ɡɹis/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"sometimes"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈæm.bə.ɡɹɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/En-us-ambergris.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "amber"
},
{
"word": "grey amber"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "gray amber"
},
{
"sense": "largely obsolete, uncommon after 1900:",
"word": "amber-gris"
},
{
"word": "amber gris"
},
{
"sense": "unused after 1900:",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "ambergreece"
},
{
"word": "amber-greece"
},
{
"word": "amber greece"
},
{
"word": "ambergrease"
},
{
"word": "amber-grease"
},
{
"word": "amber grease"
},
{
"word": "ambergreese"
},
{
"word": "amber-greese"
},
{
"sense": "common from 1750 until 1820, unused after 1900:",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "ambergrise"
},
{
"word": "amber-grise"
},
{
"word": "amber grise"
},
{
"sense": "unused after 1900:",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
],
"word": "ambergreace"
},
{
"word": "amber-greace"
},
{
"word": "amber greace"
},
{
"word": "ambergrece"
},
{
"word": "amber-grece"
},
{
"word": "amber grece"
},
{
"word": "ambergrese"
},
{
"word": "amber-grese"
},
{
"word": "amber grese"
},
{
"word": "ambergrice"
},
{
"word": "amber-grice"
},
{
"word": "amber grice"
},
{
"word": "ambergriece"
},
{
"word": "amber-griece"
},
{
"word": "amber griece"
},
{
"word": "ambergriese"
},
{
"word": "amber-griese"
},
{
"word": "amber griese"
},
{
"word": "ambregrise"
},
{
"word": "ambregris"
},
{
"word": "amber de gris"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʕanbar",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "عَنْبَر"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ənbər"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ámbra",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "а́мбра"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ámbra",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "а́мбра"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambre gris"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "龍涎香"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lóngxiánxiāng",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "龙涎香"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "dv",
"lang": "Dhivehi",
"roman": "māvaharu",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "މާވަހަރު"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "amber"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambro"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambre gris"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ámbar gris"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ambra"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Amber"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ámvra",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "άμβρα"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ámbar",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"Byzantine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ἄμβαρ"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ámbra"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambra grigia"
},
{
"alt": "りゅうぜんこう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ryūzenkō",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "竜涎香"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "anbāgurisu",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "アンバーグリス"
},
{
"alt": "龍涎香",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yong'yeonhyang",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "용연향"
},
{
"code": "lez",
"lang": "Lezgi",
"roman": "anbar",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "анбар"
},
{
"code": "lez",
"lang": "Lezgi",
"roman": "anber",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "анбер"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "āmbaṟgrīsŭ",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ആംബർഗ്രീസ്"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "mīmiha"
},
{
"alt": "ʾmnl /anbar/",
"code": "pal",
"lang": "Middle Persian",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "𐭠𐭬𐭭𐭫"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "tpw",
"lang": "Old Tupi",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "pirapu'ama repoti"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"english": "'amber",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "عنبر"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "'anbar",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "عنبر"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "âmbar cinza"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "âmbar gris"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "âmbar pardo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambră"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ámbra",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "а́мбра"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "амбра"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ámbar gris"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambari"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "ambra"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "ambaru",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "అంబరు"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "am-pan-kîi-bplaa",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "อำพันขี้ปลา"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "amber"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ámbra",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "а́мбра"
},
{
"alt": "龍涎香",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "waxy substance produced by sperm whales",
"word": "long diên hương"
}
],
"word": "ambergris"
}
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