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sparry

sparry adjective: abundant in spar (the mineral).

Adjective

sparry (comparative more sparry, superlative most sparry)

  1. abundant in spar (the mineral)
  2. resembling spar (the mineral)
    • A thousand shapes they wore, those islet stones, […]
      Some rich with yellow lichen’s gold,
      Or ruddier tinged, or grey, or silver-white,
      Or sparkling sparry radiance to the sun.1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and...

Forms of sparry

comparativemore sparry
superlativemost sparry

Origin of sparry

From spar + -y.

Words formed from sparry

Questions about sparry

What does sparry mean?
Sparry means abundant in spar (the mineral).
What part of speech is sparry?
Sparry is an adjective.

Words near sparry in the dictionary

  1. sparrows' wedding
  2. sparrows' weddings
  3. sparrowwort
  4. sparrowy
  5. sparrs
  6. sparry
  7. sparry iron
  8. spars
  9. sparse
  10. sparse array
  11. sparse arrays

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