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druse Druze

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
druse /druːz/

▶noun

1 Geology a rock cavity lined with a crust of projecting crystals.

2 Botany a rounded cluster of calcium oxalate crystals found in some plant cells.

– origin C19: via Fr. from Ger. Druse ‘weathered ore’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Druze /druːz/ (also Druse)

▶noun (pl. same, Druzes, or Druses) a member of a political and religious sect of Islamic origin, living chiefly in Lebanon and Syria.

– origin from Fr., from Arab. durūz (pl.), from the name of one of their founders, Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Darazī (died 1019).

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