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"ref": "2018, Lauren Collins, “What Women Want”, in The New Yorker",
"text": "We rambled around wet fields and bosky paths that smelled of jasmine.",
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"english": "bushes",
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"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "pensaikkoinen"
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"roman": "porósšij kustárnikom",
"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "поро́сший куста́рником"
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"Drunk; inebriated."
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"Caused by trees or shrubs."
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"Bushy, bristling."
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"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "pensaikkoinen"
},
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"english": "trees",
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"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "metsäinen"
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"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "varvikkoinen"
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"english": "trees",
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"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "boscoso"
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"code": "it",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "cespuglioso"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "porósšij lésom",
"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "поро́сший ле́сом"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "porósšij kustárnikom",
"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "поро́сший куста́рником"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having abundant bushes or trees",
"word": "boscoso"
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"word": "bosky"
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