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orchal

orchal is the obsolete form of orchil.

Meaning of orchil

Noun

orchil (countable and uncountable, plural orchils)

  1. Any of several lichens, especially those of the genera Roccella and Lecanora.
    Synonyms:
    orchella weed, archil lichen
  2. The purple dye, orcein, extracted from them (especially Lecanora tartarea) and often used as substitute for Tyrian purple.
    Synonyms:
    lacmus, orcein

Forms of orchal

pluralorchals

Questions about orchal

What is orchal the obsolete form of?
Orchal is the obsolete form of orchil.

Words near orchal in the dictionary

  1. orcesses
  2. orch
  3. orch dork
  4. orch dorks
  5. orch.
  6. orchal
  7. orchals
  8. orchanet
  9. Orchanian
  10. Orchanians
  11. orchard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orchal (page history and authors); orchil (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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