rhatany

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Spanish ratania

Noun

rhatany (countable and uncountable, plural rhatanies)

  1. The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria lappacea, syn. Krameria triandra), used in medicine and to colour port wine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rhatany in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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