bezoar

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From Persian pâdzahr پادزهر, meaning "to expel poison." (In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.)

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Singular
bezoar

Plural
bezoars

bezoar (plural bezoars)

  1. (chiefly British) A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in an animal's intestines. A hairball.
  1. An enterolith.

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