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BEZOAR
Definition of BEZOAR
noun
A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
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Other senses
BEZOAR carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A hard indigestible mass of material, such as hair, plant fibers, or seeds, found in the stomach or intestine of animals, especially ruminants and sometimes humans. Bezoars were formerly considered to be antidotes to poisons and to possess magic properties.
noun
A name for certain calculi or concretions found in the stomach or intestines of some animals (especially ruminants), formerly supposed to be efficacious in preventing the fatal effects of poison, and still held in estimation in some eastern countries.
noun
A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
noun
See Antelope.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
19th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (165)
branch · 0.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BEZOAR · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BEZOAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 118 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
First found by a player on Day 4, 25 May 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
BEZOAR starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ABEORZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 4
Could you have found BEZOAR?
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