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Definitions
any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made
Word origin
From Scots crottle, from Scottish Gaelic crotal.
Used in a sentence
“It was known and uſed as a dye-ſtuff in the Highlands of Scotland by the name of corkes or crottel, ſome hundred years ago.”
“Not that crotal and white was as humdrum as a simple definition of it as ‘brown and white’ implies. Crotal was the grey lichen which, over hundreds of years, had grown over the moorland rocks particularly”
“Parmelia omphalodes and P. saxitilis, the “crottles” used traditionally in Britain and Ireland, are sub-alpine lichens in North America.”
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