odal noun 4adjective 2forms 2 noun4 •(historical) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.At the time of the laws owners of odal had, it appears, certain powers of selling their odal, but even then it was not an uncontrolled right of a man to do what he would with his own. — 1902 •A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land. •The ownership and claim of such land.Generations of ancestors may have given an extended family the right to the land, in the same way that later Norse settlers obtained an odal right to the land they farmed. — 2000 •A large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil.Extract the oil from the seeds of Odal (Sarcostigma kleinii) and apply on the affected part of the body. — 1998 adjective2 •Of or relating to odal land. •Of or relating to an ode or odes. formsOdals · odals
