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Tragacanth Meaning In Urdu

Tragacanth Meaning in English to Urdu is کتیرا, as written in Urdu and Kateera, as written in Roman Urdu. Accurate Tragacanth Translation, Synonyms and Antonyms.

Definitions of Tragacanth

n. A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

Form Noun

How To Spell Tragacanth [trag-uh-kanth, traj-]

Origin of Tragacanth Late 16th century: from French tragacante, via Latin from Greek tragakantha ‘goat's thorn’, from tragos ‘goat’ (because it is browsed by goats) + akantha ‘thorn’ (referring to the shrub's spines).