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cruor

/ˈkɹuː.ə(ɹ)/

cruor noun: the colouring matter of the blood.

Noun

cruor (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The colouring matter of the blood.
  2. The clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the colouring matter; gore.
    • The boy is pinched and bled, heated and cooled, sprinkled with powders, spread with salves and a gritty mucilage of peony seeds and cat’s cruor.2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, pages 70-71

cruor meaning in Tamil and Bengali

cruor in Tamil

குருதியுறைவு

cruor in Bengali

রক্তের রঞ্জক পদার্থ, তঞ্চিত রক্ত

Origin of cruor

Borrowed from Latin cruor (“blood”). See crude.

Words formed from cruor

Words that rhyme with cruor

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Questions about cruor

What does cruor mean?
Cruor means the colouring matter of the blood.
What is cruor in Tamil?
Cruor in Tamil is குருதியுறைவு. See Cruor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cruor?
Cruor is a noun.
How do you pronounce cruor?
Cruor is pronounced /ˈkɹuː.ə(ɹ)/.

Words near cruor in the dictionary

  1. crunkmeisters
  2. crunks
  3. crunodal
  4. crunode
  5. crunodes
  6. cruor
  7. cruoric
  8. cruorin
  9. cruorine
  10. cruorins
  11. crup

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cruor (page history and authors); cruor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cruor (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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