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{ "etymology_text": "From the genus name, after the Neapolitan Prince of Sanseviero (1710-71).", "forms": [ { "form": "sansevierias", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "sansevieria (plural sansevierias)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "mother-in-law's tongue" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English eponyms", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)", "Pages with 3 entries", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/ɪəɹiə", "Rhymes:English/ɪəɹiə/5 syllables", "en:Asparagus family plants" ], "glosses": [ "Any of the genus Sansevieria of flowering plants native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia." ], "links": [ [ "genus", "genus" ], [ "flowering plant", "flowering plant" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "rhymes": "-ɪəɹiə" } ], "word": "sansevieria" }
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