Definition of "antra" []

• Plural of antrum. (noun)

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• "But the stolid tree — a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life — afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead."
• "[Greek: -- liphon eponumon te reuma kai petraerephae autoktit 'antra.] -- AESCHYLUS: _Prometheus Bound_."
• "But the stolid tree -- a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life -- afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead."