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tagete

tagete noun: synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).

Noun

tagete (plural tagetes)

  1. Synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).
    • The wound was washed with the juice of a young green coconut, sutured with a fine coconut fibre using the sharpened wing bone of a flying fox and then dressed with a "tagete" leaf over which was laid the outer layer of a banana flower. The whole was then sealed from the air with a mixture of...1979, Ellen Kettle, That they might live, page 3
    • […] The little girl wears a white death mask and holds a tagete (sunflower):2008, Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo: "I Paint My Reality", page 62
    Synonyms:
    tagetes

Synonyms of tagete

Forms of tagete

pluraltagetes

Origin of tagete

Apparently back-formed from translingual Tagetes, taking it to be plural.

Questions about tagete

What does tagete mean?
Tagete means synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).
What part of speech is tagete?
Tagete is a noun.
What is the plural of tagete?
The plural of tagete is tagetes.

Words near tagete in the dictionary

  1. tagelieder
  2. tagelmust
  3. tagelmusts
  4. Tagesa
  5. taget
  6. tagete
  7. tagetenone
  8. tagetes
  9. tagette
  10. Tagg
  11. taggability

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