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CUTCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cutch mean?
• CUTCH (noun)
The noun CUTCH has 1 sense:
1. tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas
Familiarity information: CUTCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cutch; kutch
Hypernyms ("cutch" is a kind of...):
tannic acid; tannin (any of various complex phenolic substances of plant origin; used in tanning and in medicine)
Context examples
“And there I shall take you to the stage-cutch, and the stage-cutch that'll take you to—wherever it is.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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