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alvar
noun (1)
al·var
| \ ˈȯlˌvär\
plural -s
Definition of alvar
(Entry 1 of 2)
: the plant community consisting typically of mosses and calciphilous herbaceous plants that grows on steppelike shallow alkaline soils overlying Scandinavian limestones
Alvar
noun (2)
Al·var
| \ ˈalˌvär, ˈäl-\
plural -s
Definition of Alvar (Entry 2 of 2)
: one of a group of southern Indian Vaishnava saints and devotional writers of the 7th to 9th centuries a.d.
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