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colcothar

colcothar noun: polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.

Noun

colcothar (countable and uncountable, plural colcothars)

  1. (obsolete) Polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.
    Synonyms:
    crocus Martis

colcothar meaning in Tamil

colcothar in Tamil

கொற்கதரர்

Synonyms of colcothar

  • crocus Martis

Forms of colcothar

pluralcolcothars

Origin of colcothar

From Arabic قَلْقَطَار (qalqaṭār).

Words formed from colcothar

Questions about colcothar

What does colcothar mean?
Colcothar means polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.
What is colcothar in Tamil?
Colcothar in Tamil is கொற்கதரர். See Colcothar meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is colcothar?
Colcothar is a noun.
What is the plural of colcothar?
The plural of colcothar is colcothars.

Words near colcothar in the dictionary

  1. Colclasures
  2. Colclough
  3. Colcloughs
  4. Colcord
  5. Colcords
  6. colcothar
  7. colcothars
  8. cold
  9. cold abscess
  10. cold abscesses
  11. cold agglutinin disease

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