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parelle

parelle noun: a crustaceous lichen yielding orchil, cudbear, and litmus.

Noun

parelle (uncountable)

  1. A crustaceous lichen yielding orchil, cudbear, and litmus.

Origin of parelle

From French parelle.

Questions about parelle

What does parelle mean?
Parelle means a crustaceous lichen yielding orchil, cudbear, and litmus.
What part of speech is parelle?
Parelle is a noun.

Words near parelle in the dictionary

  1. parelectronomy
  2. Pareles
  3. parelii
  4. parelius
  5. Parell
  6. parelle
  7. Paremata
  8. parembole
  9. paremboles
  10. paremiographer
  11. paremiographers

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