rhatany

English

Alternative forms

• ratany, rattany

Etymology

Spanish ratania

Noun

rhatany (countable and uncountable, plural rhatanies)

1. The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria lappacea), used in medicine and to colour port wine.
2. Any of the species in genus Krameria.

Derived terms

• Brazilian rhatany (Krameria argentea)
• knotty rhatany (Krameria triandra)
• littleleaf rhatany (Krameria erecta)
• manystem rhatany (Krameria ramosissima)
• para rhatany, Para rhatany (Krameria argentea)
• Peruvian rhatany (Krameria triandra)
• savanilla rhatany (Krameria ixina)
• trailing krameria (Krameria lanceolata)
• white rhatany (Krameria grayi)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)