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Tartarian

[ tahr-tair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a Tartar or the Tartars, the Mongolian and Turkish tribes who overran Asia and much of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.


Tartarian

/ ɑːˈɛəɪə /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of Tatarian See Tatarian
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of Tartarian1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; Tartar, -ian
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“When Prometheus brought fire to mankind — in a tube of fennel, as you may remember, with his brother Epimetheus — Zeus punished him by chaining him to a Tartarian crag, while his liver was pecked out.”

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Black Tartarian is a Heart cherry that would be good to try in the backyard.

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The flowers of Tartarian honeysuckle have no smell.

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The vine was Tartarian honeysuckle, a weed that grows in waste places and on abandoned ground.

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Tartarian honeysuckle reminded me of Tartarus, the land of the dead in Virgil’s Aeneid, the underworld, where the shades of the dead whispered in the shadows.

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