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Morin
- - A yellow crystalline substance (C15H10O7) of acid properties extracted from fustic (Chlorophora tinctoria syn. Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid and natural yellow 8. It is used as a dye for wool, giving a color from lemon yellow through olive to olive brown, depending on the metal with which it is mordanted.
Naris
- noun - any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx
Noria
- noun - a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel
Ohrid
- unknown - City and lake in Macedonia
Orris
- noun - a kind of lace made of gold or silver, used esp in the 18th century
- fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines
- German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome
Osric
- unknown - An Anglo Saxon king of Northumbria in the 720s AD
Pari-
- - A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.
Paris
- noun - (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War
- a town in northeastern Texas
- sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae
- the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
Peri-
- - A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.