Orris is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ORRIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the Florentine or other iris; its dried rootstock smelling of violets, used in perfumery, also ORRICE
• a preparation of the fragrant rootstock of an iris, used in perfumery and formerly in medicine.
• kind of iris
• A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.
• A sort of gold or silver lace.
• A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
• German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome
• fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a flowering plant

Words related to ORRIS

orrice8 orrises7

Words that contain ORRIS

morris8 orrises7 morrised11 morrises10 tsorriss8 camorrist13 morrising12 orrisroot9 worrisome14 camorrista14 camorristi14 camorrists14 orrisroots10 horrisonant14 horrisonous14 worrisomely19 camorristas15 worrisomeness18 worrisomenesses20

How to use ORRIS in a sentence

• It requires considerable time to drain away, and, to prevent loss, the remainder of the orris should be placed in the tincture press.
• The extract of tonquin, like extract of orris and extract of vanilla, is never sold pure, but is only used in the manufacture of compound perfumes.
• If also two ounces of powdered orris root is added and well mixed in with the dried petals the fragrance and permanence are improved.
• Also foment to get out the child, with a decoction of mercury, orris, wild cucumbers, saecus, broom flowers.
• No, there were her two little cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, remotely suggestive of orris, and bearing her monogram delicately wrought and characteristic.

Similar words containing ORRI without suffix s

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