Quercitron

Definition: Quercitron

Quercitron

Noun

1. A yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree.

2. Medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad 5-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped.

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Etymology: Quercitron \Quer"cit*ron\, noun. [French quercitron, the name of the name of tree; Latin quercus an oak + citrus the citron tree.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Quercitron

Crosswords: Quercitron

French (quercitron).

Expression using "quercitron": quercitron oak. Additional references.

Albanian

lis (acorn, oak), lëvore lisi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏الكرسترون ضرب من السنديان, ‏بلوط ليموني. (various references)

Bulgarian 

черен дъб, кверцитрон, кора от кверцирон. (various references)

Danish

farvereg (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), farveeg (black oak, dyer's oak, gall oak, quercitron oak), amerikansk roedeg (American red oak, black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak). (various references)

Dutch

quercitron (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), verfeik (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), blikeik (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak). (various references)

Finnish

mustatammi (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak). (various references)

French

quercitron (quercetin, quercitron oak). (various references)

German

Farbeiche (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), amerikanische Roteiche (American red oak, black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak). (various references)

Hungarian

amerikai fekete tölgy. (various references)

Italian

quercitrone (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), quercia nera (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), quercia del tintori (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak). (various references)

Pig Latin

ercitronquay

Portuguese

quercitron oak (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), chêne des teinturiers (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), black oak (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak), American red oak (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak). (various references)

Russian 

кверцитрон, дуб бархатный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zeleni hrast, kora zelenog hrasta. (various references)

Swedish

färgek (black oak, dyer's oak, quercitron oak). (various references)

Quercus tinctoria, Quercus velutina. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quercitron": quercitrons. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: courtier, neurotic, tricorne, trouncer, unerotic.

-3 letters: coenuri, cointer, conquer, cornier, cornute, counter, courier, courter, croquet, current, noticer, recount, recruit, reincur, routine, ruction, runtier, torquer, tricorn, trounce.

-4 letters: cinque, cirque, citron, coiner, coquet, corner, cornet, corrie, cortin, couter, cretin, curite, currie, curter, erotic, ironer, noetic, norite, notice, orcein, orient, orrice, quince, quinte, quoter, recoin.

+1 letter: quercitrons.