": any of a genus ( Lychnis ) of north-temperate zone herbs of the pink family with terminal cymes of showy mostly red or white flowers having five or rarely four styles":[]
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"\u02c8lik-n\u0259s"
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"New Latin, from Latin, a red flower, from Greek; akin to Greek lychnos lamp, Latin lux light \u2014 more at light":""
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"1601, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a roofed gate in a churchyard under which a bier rests during the initial part of the burial service":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8lich-\u02ccg\u0101t"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English lycheyate , from lich body, corpse (from Old English l\u012bc ) + gate, yate gate":""
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193642"
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"noun"
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": the small, oval to roundish fruit of a Chinese tree ( Litchi chinensis ) of the soapberry family having a rough or warty, yellow, pink, or reddish leathery rind and sweet to slightly acidic usually whitish edible flesh that surrounds a single large seed":[],
": a slow-growing tree that bears lychees and has glossy, leathery leaves and terminal clusters of tiny, apetalous, greenish-white to yellow flowers":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u0113-(\u02cc)ch\u0113",
"\u02c8l\u012b-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Or Vana retreat in India, set on the slopes of a lychee and mango plantation, is an international ashram, a wellness retreat and sanctuary. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"The vegan cocktails spotlight Asian ingredients such as lychee and five-spice. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Screening of Thailand\u2019s shipments of longan\u2014a fleshy lychee -like fruit\u2014led to the quarantining of sellers, buyers and store visitors earlier this month. \u2014 Niharika Mandhana, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2022",
"For gifts during holidays, CATL sends lychee and loquat fruit grown on Ningde\u2019s outskirts. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Aromas of brown sugar and hints of lychee with a satiny, crisp, dryish light body and breezy hints of vanilla, caramel pudding, and Bananas Foster finish. \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021",
"But garnished with a glossy lychee , the martini embodied the delicate sweetness of the fruit with its floral and vanilla flavors. \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 16 Sep. 2021",
"The bulbs themselves had a crisp flesh and were a little sour, while the syrup had a lychee -like taste. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Yelpers recommend the espresso martini at The Fairmount and the lychee martini at Xinji Noodle Bar and Peppermint Thai Cuisine. \u2014 Lauren Kotmel, cleveland , 16 Aug. 2021"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Chinese (Beijing) l\u00eczh\u012b":""
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"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-091511"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": low side window":[]
},
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"\u02c8likn\u0259\u02ccsk\u014dp"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek lychnos lamp + English -scope":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112133"
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
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"ancient region and Roman province in southwestern Asia Minor on the coast southeast of Caria":[]
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"\u02c8li-sh(\u0113-)\u0259"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-190857"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": a native or inhabitant of Lycia":[],
": an Anatolian language of the Indo-European language family \u2014 see Indo-European Languages Table":[]
": an association providing public lectures, concerts, and entertainments":[],
": lyc\u00e9e":[]
},
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"\u02c8l\u012b-s\u0113-",
"l\u012b-\u02c8s\u0113-\u0259m"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All of the children in the lyceum participated in the exercise without protest. \u2014 Mira Ptacin, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Its roots go back further, though, to the lyceum movement that started in Massachusetts in the 1820s and offered attendees the prospect of self-improvement through lectures on literary, scientific and moral topics. \u2014 Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com , 18 Apr. 2021",
"Thoreau delivered his famous essay Resistance to Civil Government as a lyceum lecture in January of 1848. \u2014 R.h. Lossin, The New York Review of Books , 4 Sep. 2020",
"The Chandor Gardens Foundation envisions a lyceum , restaurant, classrooms, and amphitheater for the property. \u2014 Star-telegram, star-telegram.com , 27 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin Lyceum , gymnasium near Athens where Aristotle taught, from Greek Lykeion , from neuter of lykeios , epithet of Apollo":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1786, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-102409"
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"lyc\u00e9e":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a French public secondary school that prepares students for the university":[]
},
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"l\u0113-\u02c8s\u0101"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from Middle French, lyceum, from Latin Lyceum":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-165016"
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"ancient region and Roman province in southeast central Asia Minor north of Cilicia":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccli-k\u0101-\u02c8\u014d-n\u0113-\u0259",
"-ny\u0259",
"\u02ccl\u012b-"
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-170009"
},
"Lycidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of soft-bodied mainly tropical beetles that are usually marked with a bold pattern of orange or brown and black, have disagreeable qualities to many predators, and are mimicked by numerous edible insects":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8lis\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Lycus , type genus (from Greek lykos wolf) + -idae":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-193150"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of animals containing the African wild dog":[]
},
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"l\u012b\u02c8k\u0101\u0259n",
"-\u0101\u02cc\u00e4n"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, mythological king of Arcadia who was transformed into a wolf, from Greek Lyka\u014dn":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-222143"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of shrubs or trees (family Solanaceae) having simple leaves and tubular campanulate flowers \u2014 see matrimony vine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8lis(h)\u0113\u0259m"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek lykion , a thorn from Lycia, from neuter of Lykios Lycian":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-000802"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a subterranean fungus ( Elaphomyces cervinus ) resembling a puffball \u2014 compare hart's truffle":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-020950"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": of, relating to, or resembling the genus Lycoperdon":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Lycoperdon + English -oid":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-024143"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a delusion that one has become a wolf":[],
": the assumption of the form and characteristics of a wolf held to be possible by witchcraft or magic":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"l\u012b-\u02c8kan(t)-thr\u0259-p\u0113"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Russell has a family history of lycanthropy \u2014 or the supernatural transformation of a human into a wolf \u2014 but uses his power for good, and is able to remain aware of his transformations. \u2014 Ellise Shafer, Variety , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Created by Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, Scot Eaton and Benjamin Jackendoff, Gomez is described to be a descendant of the Native American tribe Hopi who has been cursed with lycanthropy , also through his lineage. \u2014 Ellise Shafer, Variety , 28 Aug. 2021",
"The fantasies depicted were encyclopedic in their macabre scope, including murder, s\u00e9ances, ghost hunts, telekinesis, black magic, Nazis, lycanthropy and a visit by Jack the Ripper. \u2014 Erik Piepenburg, New York Times , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Teen Wolf, Teen Wolf Too (August 1) High school is a tough time for any teenager, and made even tougher by lycanthropy (i.e. werewolf-dom), as both Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman learn in these 1980s horror-comedies. \u2014 Nick Schager, Esquire , 28 July 2017"
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"New Latin lycanthropia , from Greek lykanthr\u014dpia , from lykanthr\u014dpos werewolf, from lykos wolf + anthr\u014dpos human being \u2014 more at wolf":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-041211"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of South American herbs (family Solanaceae) having anthers projected into sharp or narrow sterile tips \u2014 see tomato":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02c8p\u0259rs\u0259\u0307\u02cck\u00e4n"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, irregular from Greek lykopersion , an Egyptian plant":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-044434"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": lycanthropic":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-085907"
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"type":[],
"definitions":{
"\u2014 see lyc-":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-092820"
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"type":[
"combining form"
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"definitions":{
": wolf":[
"Lyco podium"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek lyk-, lyko- , from lykos":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-101824"
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a delusion that one has become a wolf":[],
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"pronounciation":[
"l\u012b-\u02c8kan(t)-thr\u0259-p\u0113"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Russell has a family history of lycanthropy \u2014 or the supernatural transformation of a human into a wolf \u2014 but uses his power for good, and is able to remain aware of his transformations. \u2014 Ellise Shafer, Variety , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Created by Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, Scot Eaton and Benjamin Jackendoff, Gomez is described to be a descendant of the Native American tribe Hopi who has been cursed with lycanthropy , also through his lineage. \u2014 Ellise Shafer, Variety , 28 Aug. 2021",
"The fantasies depicted were encyclopedic in their macabre scope, including murder, s\u00e9ances, ghost hunts, telekinesis, black magic, Nazis, lycanthropy and a visit by Jack the Ripper. \u2014 Erik Piepenburg, New York Times , 14 Feb. 2020",
"Teen Wolf, Teen Wolf Too (August 1) High school is a tough time for any teenager, and made even tougher by lycanthropy (i.e. werewolf-dom), as both Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman learn in these 1980s horror-comedies. \u2014 Nick Schager, Esquire , 28 July 2017"
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"New Latin lycanthropia , from Greek lykanthr\u014dpia , from lykanthr\u014dpos werewolf, from lykos wolf + anthr\u014dpos human being \u2014 more at wolf":""
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"first_known_use":{
"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-084744"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": lycanthrope":[]
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"l\u012b\u02c8kan(t)thr\u0259p\u0259\u0307st"
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-143152"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of small often brilliantly colored butterflies having the forelegs short in the male and including the blues, coppers, and hairstreaks":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-n\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Lycaena , type genus + -idae":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-171118"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the family Lycaenidae":[],
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"pronounciation":[
"\"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-201934"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus (the type of the family Lycaenidae ) comprising small slender butterflies with the upper surface of the wings usually metallic blue, green, or copper and the undersurface dull or cryptic":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"l\u012b\u02c8s\u0113n\u0259"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek lykaina , feminine of lykos wolf":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-211834"
},
"Lycabettus":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
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"definitions":{
"mountain 909 feet (277 meters) high in the northeastern part of Athens, Greece":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccli-k\u0259-\u02c8be-t\u0259s",
"\u02ccl\u012b-"
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-211838"
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"Lycoperdaceae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of fungi (order Lycoperdales) comprising the puffballs and having a spherical fruiting body with a flexible peridium of two or three layers enclosing a chambered gleba that appears solid and white when young and at maturity is filled with masses of powdery dark spores":[]
"New Latin, from Lycoperdon , type genus + -aceae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-215234"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a carotenoid pigment C 40 H 56 that is the red coloring matter of the tomato":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8l\u012b-k\u0259-\u02ccp\u0113n"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Research shows that consuming foods with lycopene may reduce your risk for heart disease and stroke. \u2014 Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Perhaps the most hydrating food on this list is tomatoes, due mostly in part to their presence of lycopene \u2014a powerful antioxidant that research has shown to protect the skin specifically. \u2014 Joey Skladany, Better Homes & Gardens , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Though research results are mixed, some studies show that higher intakes of dietary lycopene can reduce the risk of prostate cancer. \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 8 Aug. 2021",
"Skincare aside, the lycopene in the melon is also an excellent for your cardiovascular system. \u2014 Serena Coady, Glamour , 4 June 2021",
"The antioxidant lycopene in tomatoes can potentially prevent cancer and supports a healthy immune system. \u2014 Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com , 18 Mar. 2021",
"Watermelon is full of antioxidants, such as lycopene , which keep you healthy overall, prevent disease and reduce inflammation in your body. \u2014 Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com , 27 Feb. 2021",
"One disease-fighting agent in watermelon is a phytonutrient called lycopene . \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 5 Sep. 2020",
"For the most lycopene , opt for traditional pink flesh watermelon, which packs much more of the antioxidant compared to yellow and orange varieties. \u2014 Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com , 12 Aug. 2020"
],
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"International Scientific Vocabulary lycop- (from New Latin Lycopersicon , genus of herbs) + -ene":""
