purree

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a Hindi word for "yellow".

Noun[edit]

purree (uncountable)

  1. A substance used in making the pigment Indian yellow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for purree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Finnish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈpurːeː/, [ˈpurːe̞ː]
  • Rhymes: -urːeː
  • Syllabification(key): pur‧ree

Verb[edit]

purree

  1. third-person singular present potential of purra