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nitre

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Noun

HYPHEN

ni=tre

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun nitre has 1 sense

nitre(n = noun.substance) niter, potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre - (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive;

is a kind of nitrate

Derived forms adjective nitric₁, adjective nitrous₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

nitre, n. [F. nitre, L. nitrum native soda, natron, Gr. ; cf. Ar. nit, natr natron. Cf. Natron.].

A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter. [1913 Webster]

Native sodium carbonate; natron. [1913 Webster]
"For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me." [1913 Webster]

Cubic niter, a deliquescent salt, sodium nitrate, found as a native incrustation, like niter, in Peru and Chile, whence it is known also as Chile saltpeter. -- Niter bush (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.

nitre, n.

See Niter. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

nitre, n. (US niter) saltpetre, potassium nitrate.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L nitrum f. Gk nitron, of Semitic orig.

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