"penca" meaning in Portuguese

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        "4": "leaf's vein, stalk"
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      "form": "pencas",
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        "plural"
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  "hyphenation": [
    "pen‧ca"
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  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Botany",
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      "glosses": [
        "white cabbage"
      ],
      "id": "en-penca-pt-noun-abavbnsO",
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          "white cabbage",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(botany) white cabbage"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "repolho branco"
        }
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        "feminine"
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        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
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          "english": "Wine or cachaça? asked the old man, appearing, again, at the door, holding a bunch of bananas that would fall from his hands so ripe they were.",
          "ref": "1867, Franklin Távora, chapter 11, in O Cabeleira, page 190:",
          "text": "Vinho ou cachaça? perguntou o velho, apontando, de volta, na porta, com uma penca de bananas que lhe vinham caindo das mãos de maduras.",
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      "glosses": [
        "a bunch (of flowers or fruits)"
      ],
      "id": "en-penca-pt-noun-oMrfYRWN",
      "links": [
        [
          "bunch",
          "bunch"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "glosses": [
        "a bunch (a considerable amount of something)"
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        "(informal) a bunch (a considerable amount of something)"
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        "informal"
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        {
          "ref": "1913, Coelho Neto, chapter XXVII, in A Conquista:",
          "text": "Vou ver. E, com desabalados gestos, Montezuma partiu, falando só, com dois pince-nez escarranchados na penca.",
          "type": "quote"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hooter; schnozzle (especially large nose)"
      ],
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          "hooter",
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        "(slang) hooter; schnozzle (especially large nose)"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpẽ.kɐ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ẽkɐ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "penca"
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          "ref": "1867, Franklin Távora, chapter 11, in O Cabeleira, page 190:",
          "text": "Vinho ou cachaça? perguntou o velho, apontando, de volta, na porta, com uma penca de bananas que lhe vinham caindo das mãos de maduras.",
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      "glosses": [
        "a bunch (a considerable amount of something)"
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        "(informal) a bunch (a considerable amount of something)"
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          "type": "quote"
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        "(slang) hooter; schnozzle (especially large nose)"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpẽ.kɐ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ẽkɐ"
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  ],
  "word": "penca"
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