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la carie

/ka.ʁi/ noun · feminine B2
  1. decay (uncountable), cavity (countable) (process or result of bone or teeth being gradually decomposed)
  2. rot (process of a plant becoming rotten)
  3. rust (disease of cereals in which the grain is replaced by the spores of a reddish-brown fungus in genus Uredo)

Plural caries

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Tu n'as pas de carie.
Chez le dentiste, p. 1 · A2

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