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chunar

chunar is the alternative form of chinar.

Meaning of chinar

Noun

chinar (plural chinars)

  1. An oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis).
    • The chinar, or Oriental plane tree, has been cultivated in Persia from the earliest period; and Evelyn states that "a worthy knight, who staid at Ispahan when that famous city was infected with a raging pestilence, told" him "that, since they have planted a greater number of these noble treees...1854, John Claudius Loudon, Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum

Forms of chunar

pluralchunars

Questions about chunar

What is chunar the alternative form of?
Chunar is the alternative form of chinar.

Words near chunar in the dictionary

  1. chunamed
  2. chunaming
  3. chunammed
  4. chunamming
  5. chunams
  6. chunar
  7. chunari
  8. chunaris
  9. chunars
  10. Chuncheon
  11. Chunchiu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chunar (page history and authors); chinar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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