Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Tatarian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
  • adjective (Bot.) Scythian lamb. See Barometz.
  • noun (Bot.) The name of some kinds of cherries, .

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Examples

  • They hurried away, reached the cars just in time, found exactly what they wished, smoke trees, tartarian honeysuckles, azalias, etc., etc., ordered them to be ready for Mr. Grant's team Monday noon, and then went back to the city.

    Bertie and the Gardeners or, The Way to be Happy Madeline Leslie 1854

  • Thus alternated our course over mountain heights, and through tartarian depths.

    Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

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