Tartarian noun & adjective. [tɑ:'tɛ:rɪǝn] LME.
[from Old French Tartarien or (later) its source medieval Latin Tartaria TARTARY: see -IAN.]
A. noun. A Tartar. LME.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to Tartary or the Tartars; = TARTAR adjective 1. Now chiefly in names of things of actual or supposed Tartar origin. LME.
Tartarian lamb = BAROMETZ. Tartarian oats a form of cultivated oat, Avena orientalis, in which the panicle droops to one side.

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