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}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English poetic terms",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To cover with, or as if with, pollen."
],
"links": [
[
"poetic",
"poetic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen."
],
"tags": [
"poetic",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɒlən/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɑlən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒlən"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pollen.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c7/En-us-pollen.ogg/En-us-pollen.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/En-us-pollen.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"pollen"
],
"word": "pollen"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": hoe-hún vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"pollen"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "pollen",
"trace": ""
}
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