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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several lichens, chiefly of the genera Roccella and Lecanora, from which a dye is obtained.
  2. n. The violet dyestuff obtained from any of these organisms.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as archil.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several lichens, especially those of the genera Roccella and Lecanora.
  2. n. The dye, orcein, extracted from them.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See archil.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil
  2. n. a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens

Etymologies

  1. Middle English orchell, ultimately from Old Catalan orxella, perhaps of Mozarabic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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