alvar
Definition of alvar
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: the plant community consisting typically of mosses and calciphilous herbaceous plants that grows on steppelike shallow alkaline soils overlying Scandinavian limestones
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Origin and Etymology of alvar
Swedish ålvar
First Known Use: 1917
Alvar
Definition of Alvar
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: one of a group of southern Indian Vaishnava saints and devotional writers of the 7th to 9th centuries a.d.
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Origin and Etymology of alvar
Tamil Ār̤vār, from ār̤- to sink, be immersed in meditation
First Known Use: 1865
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