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  • proper noun Archaic form of Yggdrasil.

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Examples

  • It is a montrous [sic] tree -- a veritable Ygdrasyl -- penetrating both the region of darkness and the realm of light.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • He's the Ward McAllister of Kay-See, the model of the chappies, and traces his haughty lineage back in an unbroken line to the primordial anthropoid swinging by his prehensile tail to a limb of the Ash tree Ygdrasyl and playfully scratching the back of the hungry behemoth with the jawbone of an erstwhile ichthyosaurian.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

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