alizari

English

Etymology

From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”).

Noun

alizari (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alizari in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Noun

alizari m (plural alizaris)

  1. alizari
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