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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Consisting of or resembling tartar.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of tartar; resembling tartar, or partaking of its properties.
  • In botany, having a rough crumbling surface, like the thallus of some lichens.
  • Same as Tartarean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
  • adjective (Bot.) Having the surface rough and crumbling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
  • adjective botany Having a rough, crumbly surface.

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Compare tartarous.

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