orvet

English

Etymology

French orvet

Noun

orvet (plural orvets)

1. (obsolete) The slowworm.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “orvet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• overt, trove, voter

French

Etymology

Uncertain; probably from Old French orb (“blind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.vɛ/

• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

orvet m (plural orvets)

1. slowworm

Further reading

• “orvet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• voter, votre, vôtre