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"masculine"
],
"word": "wąs"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gavinha"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cârcel"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "úsik",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "у́сик"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ògan"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vitica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zarcillo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"word": "klänge"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"word": "ranka"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"word": "śkwarya"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "thin, spirally coiling stem",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tendril"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hair-like tentacle",
"word": "korkkiruuvi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hair-like tentacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cirre"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hair-like tentacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cirro"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hair-like tentacle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kosmyk"
}
],
"word": "tendril"
}
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"3": "tendrillon",
"4": "",
"5": "bud, shoot, cartilage"
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"name": "uder"
},
{
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"3": "",
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{
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"1": "en",
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"4": "",
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"name": "uder"
}
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"ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 275",
"text": "Kissing the tendril fingers - at first because Mina, its mother, did not - but later with a rapture begot by its breath on her breast.",
"type": "quotation"
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},
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"tags": [
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