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Tartarian
[tahr-tair-ee-uhn]
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of a Tartar or the Tartars, the Mongolian and Turkish tribes who overran Asia and much of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
Tartarian
/ ɑːˈɛəɪə /
adjective
a variant spelling of Tatarian See Tatarian
Word History and Origins
Origin of Tartarian1
Example Sentences
“When Prometheus brought fire to mankind — in a tube of fennel, as you may remember, with his brother Epimetheus — Zeus punished him by chaining him to a Tartarian crag, while his liver was pecked out.”
Black Tartarian is a Heart cherry that would be good to try in the backyard.
The flowers of Tartarian honeysuckle have no smell.
The vine was Tartarian honeysuckle, a weed that grows in waste places and on abandoned ground.
Tartarian honeysuckle reminded me of Tartarus, the land of the dead in Virgil’s Aeneid, the underworld, where the shades of the dead whispered in the shadows.
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