tragacanth
Meaning of tragacanth
noun
a white or reddish plant gum, used in the food, textile, and pharmaceutical industries.
late 16th century: from French tragacante, via Latin from Greek tragakantha ‘goat's thorn’, from tragos ‘goat’ (because it is browsed by goats) + akantha ‘thorn’ (referring to the shrub's spines).
Information about tragacanth
- It is a name.
- The plural form of tragacanth is: tragacanths.
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Hyphenation of tragacanth
tra-ga-canth
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- tragacanth is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with tragacanth
Canth, acanth, anacanth, calycanth, chalcanth, coelacanth, hexacanth, homacanth, pyracanth, Cleanth, amianth, perianth, pseudoperianth, limnanth, schoenanth, Adigranth, Granth, adigranth, amaranth, centranth, hydranth, scleranth, zephyranth, chrysanth, depressanth, xanth, rhizanth
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