Definitions for bezoar

bezoar be·zoar

Spelling: [bee-zawr, -zohr]
IPA: /ˈbi zɔr, -zoʊr/

Bezoar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in bezoar (abeorz).

Definitions for bezoar

noun

  1. a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, especially ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
  2. Obsolete. a counterpoison or antidote.

Origin of bezoar

1470-80; earlier bezear Medieval Latin bezahar Arabic bā(di)zahr Persian pād-zahr counterpoison; -o- New Latin

Examples for bezoar

When the bezoar and the Grandduke's oil failed to produce any abatement in the symptoms, the parish priest was sent for!

Both the unicorn's horn and the bezoar stone were sovereign antidotes against poison.

At another time Winthrop had sent to him "bezoar stone, mugwort, orgaine, and galingall root."

The Arabic name of the bezoar (badesar) has the meaning of antidote.

These bodies had long been known as “fossil fir cones” and “bezoar stones.”

Facing the Snorter, he spat in his face, with a noise like thunder, a piece of bezoar as large as a rice-bowl.

Macasser is an island not far from Celebes, having abundance of bezoar stones, which are there to be had at reasonable rates.

The eighth animal is generally called the bezoar antelope, but by the eastern nations pasan, which name we retain.

The ancients, both Greeks and Latins, have no knowledge of the bezoar.

The oldest domesticated goats seem to be descended from the bezoar goat (Capra ægagrus), from the mountains of southwestern Asia.

Word Value for bezoar
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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