nard

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)

1. Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
2. A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XIV:

     there cam a woman with an alablaster boxe of oyntmenr, called narde, that was pure and costly, and she brake the boxe and powred it on his heed.

3. American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.

• (Nardostachys jatamansi): nardin, muskroot

• spikenard

• nard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nardostachys jatamansi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nardostachys+jatamansi at The Plant List
• nard at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nard, in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1987.

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”), most likely a phonetic variation of nads, itself an abbreviation of gonads

nard (plural nards)

1. (US, 1980s, slang, always plural) Testicles.

   The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

• (testicles): balls, nuts

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• DNAR, DNRA, RAND, Rand, andr-, darn, rDNA, rand, rdna

From Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician, from Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”).

• IPA^(key): /nârd/

nȁrd m (Cyrillic spelling на̏рд)

1. nard (plant or oil)

• “nard” in Hrvatski jezični portal

nard (plural nards)

1. valerian