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"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "ambrosia"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ambrosia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambrozja"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambrosia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ambrózija",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "амбро́зия"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "амброзија"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambrozija"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"word": "ambrozija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ambrosía"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"word": "ambrosia"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"word": "ambrosya"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "bdud rtsi",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"word": "བདུད་རྩི"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "food of gods or delicious foods",
"word": "brosiam"
}
],
"word": "ambrosia"
}
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