Usually means: Deposit of hardened dental plaque.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tartar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Tartar, tartar: Merriam-Webster
  3. Tartar, tartar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Tartar, tartar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tartar: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Tartar, tartar: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tartar, tartar: Wordnik
  8. tartar: Wiktionary
  9. tartar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Tartar, tartar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tartar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tartar: Dictionary.com
  13. Tartar, tartar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tartar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tartar (city), Tartar (horse), Tartar (river), Tartar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tartar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tartar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tartar: Rhymezone
  19. Tartar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tartar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tartar: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tartar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Tartar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. tartar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  25. Tartar: Wiktionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Italian Glossary (No longer online)
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  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tartar: Glossary of Health Care Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tartar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tartar: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tartar: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Tartar: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. tartar: Medical dictionary
  8. Tartar: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. TARTAR: Acronym Finder
  3. tartar: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tartar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See tartarian as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
noun:  A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.
noun:  (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.
noun:  A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus.
noun:  (figurative, dated) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
noun:  (figurative) A rough or violent event.
adjective:  Of or relating to the people or culture of Tartars.
noun:  One of the tributary rivers of the Kura, flowing through Artsakh and Azerbaijan
noun:  A town in Azerbaijan located on this river
noun:  Alternative spelling of Tatar [An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.]

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