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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Überrest"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "Trümmer"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "strāgēs"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oblomki",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "обломки"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oskolki",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "осколки"
}
],
"word": "detritus"
}
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