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Etymologies
- Middle English, from Latin, from Greek bdellion, variant of bdolkhon, of Semitic origin; akin to Akkadian budulḫu.
Examples
“-- "Bdellium" apparently was a precious gum of antiquity.”
“Mr. ROBERTSON: Bdellium, it's a - it's a gum-like tree resin.”
“It is a pity that things have changed so much for Mingrelia; that beautiful country, so famous for the loves of Medea and Jason, now produces gold and Bdellium no more than bulls which vomit fire and flame, and dragons which guard the fleece.”
“Bdellium is the carbuncle, but that it may also be crystal.”
“We are very much puzzled to know what this Bdellium is which is found near the shores of the Pison, a river of the terrestrial paradise which turns into the country of the Havilah, where there is gold.”
“Bdellium is an odoriferous exudation from a tree which is perhaps the Borassus flabelliformis, Lin., of Arabia Felix.”
“_B. mukul_ yields a resin of this name, and is considered identical with the Bdellium of Dioscorides and of the Scriptures.”
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
“It also furnishes a gum resin analogous to Elemi, and supposed to yield Indian Bdellium.”
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
“Bdellium, if it is benzoin, amomum, and cardamomum were perhaps rather imported through Media than the actual produce of the country, which is too cold in the winter to grow any good spices.”
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