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Adansonia :: Adansonia (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth..

Khan :: Khan (n.) A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them..

Tartralic :: Tartralic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; -- called also ditartaric, tartrilic, or tartrylic acid..

Pyrotartaric :: Pyrotartaric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid..

Tartrovinic :: Tartrovinic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain acid composed of tartaric acid in combination with ethyl, and now called ethyltartaric acid..

Tartaric :: Tartaric (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars..

Tartro- :: Tartro- () A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry to denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or derivatives.

Tartrate :: Tartrate (n.) A salt of tartaric acid.

Tartarize :: Tartarize (v. t.) To cause to resemble the Tartars and their civilization, as by conquest..

Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper..

Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France)..

Tartarian :: Tartarian (a.) Alt. of Tartari.

Tartareous :: Tartareous (a.) Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.

Subtectacle :: Subtartarean (a.) Being or living under Tartarus; infernal.

Raised :: Raised (a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4..

Tartaric :: Tartaric (a.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar..

Tartarine :: Tartarine (n.) Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar..

Inactive :: Inactive (a.) Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid..

Uvic :: Uvic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, grapes; specifically, designating an organic acid, C7H8O3 (also called pyrotritartaric acid), obtained as a white crystalline substance by the decomposition of tartaric and pyrotartaric acids..

Tartarous :: Tartarous (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable..

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