Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek antiquity, a small elongated vase for unguents or perfumes, rounded at the bottom and provided with a broad rim about a small orifice. Vases of this class were originally so called because made of alabaster; but the name was applied also to vessels of similar form and use in other materials, as metal, glass (sometimes richly ornamented in color), or pottery. Sometimes called alabaster, alabastos.
- n. [NL., also alabastrus; prop. L. alabaster (acc. pl. alabastros, in Pliny), a rose-bud: see alabaster.] A flower-bud.
Wiktionary
- n. An alabastron, or ancient pottery container for oil.
- n. botany A flower bud.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A flower bud.
Examples
“Where, a second earlier, there had been a squad of InfiniDim Enterprises executives with a rocket launcher standing on an elegant terraced plaza paved with large slabs of lustrous stone cut from the ancient alabastrum quarries of Zentalquabula there was now, instead, a bit of a pit with nasty bits in it.”
“The manuscript species of Mr. Dohrn will shortly appear in his intended work upon the land and fluviatile shells of Ceylon.] [Footnote 6: As Ellobium.] [Footnote 7: As Melampus.] [Footnote 8: As Ophicardelis.] alabastrum, _Pfeiff.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alabastrum’.
-
Never For Sale On Craigslist
List of items never for sale on craigslist.
Should you find one of these for sale, let us know. We'll scare you up a coupon for a free day at a gym or something.vectis, soupir, porcupine-machine, electric pig, poke-bonnet, shawm, staddle stone, beating-engine, hicon, figurehead, low-warp loom, radevore and 516 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for alabastrum.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.