bezoar
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
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- 18
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- 6
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Definition of bezoar
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
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noun
- A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
- An enterolith.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally…
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Borrowed from Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.
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