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crotal

crotal \crotal\ n. any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made.

Syn: crottle, crottal. [WordNet 1.5] ||

crotal

crottal \crottal\ n. any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made. [Also spelled crottle and crotal.]

Syn: .

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crotal

n. any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made [syn: crottle, crottal]

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If this is the case, then the shaman we saw may have been the friend and ally of those priestesses who range so widely in their civilization across the same land where he, in primitive savagery, once sacrificed with liturgical rigidity of drum and crotal in the small temple of the stone town.