adragant

English

Etymology

From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth.

Noun

adragant (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Gum tragacanth.
   • 1741, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary:

     From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant :
     “We had (says he) the Satisfaction
     “of fully observing the Gum
     “Adragant   […]

   • 1800, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, translated by W. Nicholson, Elements of Chemistry ... Translated from the French. The third edition, page 39:

     3. Gum adragant.—The gum adragant […] flows from the adragant of Crete, a small shrub […]

   • 1795, American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, One Thousand Valuable Secrets, in the Elegant and Useful Arts: Collected from the Practice of the Best Artists and Containing an Account of the Various Methods, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:

     Make a color composed of brown red, and a little flat, or Venetian lake, previously grinded with gum adragant. Then, with a largish brush, take of that color and asperse your oiled marble with it, by striking the handle of the brush on your wrist, ...

References

• “adragant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Catalan

Alternative forms

• dragant

Etymology

Variant form of tragacant.

Noun

adragant m (plural adragants)

1. (obsolete) tragacanth (gum)

   Synonym: tragacant

Further reading

• “adragant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

adragant m (plural adragants)

1. tragacanth (gum)

Further reading

• “adragant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French adragant.

Noun

adragant n (uncountable)

1. tragacanth

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	adragant	adragantul
genitive-dative	adragant	adragantului
vocative	adragantule