adragant

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adragant

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From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth.

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  1. obsolete, uncountable Gum tragacanth. From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant : “We had (says he) the Satisfaction “of fully observing the Gum “Adragant […]

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@misc{adragant_2026,
  title = {adragant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adragant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}