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xrafstar

xrafstar noun: any animal considered harmful or repulsive, and not to be sacrificed or eaten.

Noun

xrafstar (plural xrafstars)

  1. Any animal considered harmful or repulsive, and not to be sacrificed or eaten.
    • There are three kinds of xrafstars corresponding to three categories of animals: those that live in water, those that live on earth, and those that live in the air.1994, JSAI, volume 17, page 23
    • GBd 22 gives details of certain xrafstars, such as the silkworm and the honeybee, which 'Ohrmazd through omniscience diverts to the benefit of creatures' (my translation), just as he also makes the noxious creatures attack and kill their own species (GBd 22.29).2015, Michael Stausberg, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, page 352

Forms of xrafstar

pluralxrafstars

Questions about xrafstar

What does xrafstar mean?
Xrafstar means any animal considered harmful or repulsive, and not to be sacrificed or eaten.
What part of speech is xrafstar?
Xrafstar is a noun.
What is the plural of xrafstar?
The plural of xrafstar is xrafstars.

Words near xrafstar in the dictionary

  1. XQs
  2. XQuery
  3. Xquic
  4. XR
  5. XR9576
  6. xrafstar
  7. xrafstars
  8. xray
  9. xrayed
  10. xraying
  11. xrays

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