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bezoar

bezoar

1 9.9
A hard ball that forms inside the stomach of animals or people
  • noun
  • /ˈbiːzoʊr/
  • Specialized
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  • Quick thinking on your part, Harry, using a bezoar.

Examples

  • Where would you look if I asked you to find a bezoar?

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

  • I'll tell you more about bezoars in our next class.

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

  • Bezoar and hyacinth stone show equally admirable properties.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • In ancient times, people believed that a bezoar could protect them from poison.

  • The vet explained that a bezoar is a hard mass found in the stomach of animals.

  • Some cultures considered a bezoar to have medicinal properties and used it in remedies.

Synonyms

trichobezoar
vsbezoar
  • Specialized
9.9

A hard ball of swallowed hair in the stomach or intestines

covers hard masses of various materials not limited to hair

Compounds

bezoar goat
9.9

A wild goat from Iran and nearby areas with large curved horns, seen as the ancestor of farm goats

Surface Forms

bezoar singular
bezoars plural

Etymology

Bezoar comes from Persian pād-zahr ('protects against poison'). Long ago people thought a hard stone from an animal's stomach could 'cure' or stop poison, so the name came to mean the hard stomach mass we still call a bezoar today.