| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| alizarin |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·liz·a·rin |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -l z r-n |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also a·liz·a·rine (-n, --r n ) |
| NOUN: | An orange-red crystalline compound, C14H6O2(OH)2, used in making dyes. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French alizarine, from alizari, madder root, from Spanish, probably from Arabic al-‘u  ra, the juice : al-, the + ‘ura, juice (from ‘aara, to squeeze; see cr in Appendix II).
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