bezoar
Plural: bezoars
Noun
- A hard, indigestible mass found in the stomachs of some animals.
- A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
- An enterolith.
Examples
- The cluster of consonants on my rack felt like a linguistic bezoar.
Origin / Etymology
From Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.
Synonyms
bezoar stone
Scrabble Score: 17
bezoar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbezoar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bezoar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 18
bezoar: valid Words With Friends Word