derris
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 6
Definition of derris
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (uncountable)A climbing leguminous plant of Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific Islands, Derris elliptica, whose roots are a source of rotenone.
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Etymology
From New Latin and translingual Derris, from Ancient Greek δέρρις (dérrhis, “leather, skin”), referring to the leathery pods, from δέρω (dérō, “I skin, I flay”).
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