Definition of Picras

1. picra [n] - See also: picra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picras

picowatts
picowave
picowaved
picowaves
picowaving
picquet
picqueted
picqueter
picqueters
picquets
picra
picramate
picramates
picramic
picramic acid
picras (current term)
picrate
picrated
picrates
picrete
picric
picric acid
picrite
picrites
picritic
picro-Mallory trichrome stain
picrobasalt
picrobasalts
picrocarmine
picrocarmine stain

Literary usage of Picras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1889)
"Anyhow, both St. Perran and St. picras live in the memory of the Cornish miner as the discoverers of tin ; and the tinners' great holiday, the Thursday ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1867)
"Anyhow both St. Perran and St. picras live in the memory of the Cornish miner as the discoverers of tin ; and the tinners' ..."

3. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"He took with him Fathers Miguel picras and Buenaventura Sitjar, ... Father picras, who stood by and was astonished at what he saw and heard, asked, ..."

4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... Buenaventura Sitjar, Domingo Juncosa, Francisco Dumetz, Jos6 Cavalier, Angel Somera, Luis Jaume, Miguel picras, and Pedro Benito Cambon. ..."

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