AMADOU
\ˈamɐdˌuː], \ˈamɐdˌuː], \ˈa_m_ɐ_d_ˌuː]\
Definitions of AMADOU
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.
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A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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am'a-d[=oo], n. a soft spongy substance, growing as a fungus on forest trees, used as a styptic and as tinder. [Fr. amadouer, to allure (as in the phrase 'to coax a fire'); prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Norse mata, to feed.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Touchwood, punk, spunk, tinder, oak agaric; obtained from Polyporus igniarius and other species of Polyporus; formerly much used as a hemostatic application and occasionally for the protection of abraded surfaces. [Fr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
By Henry Percy Smith
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