Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An unknown aromatic thorny shrub mentioned in the Apocrypha and by some of the old herbalists.
- noun The South African broom, a large genus of African plants, natural order Leguminosæ, with small heath-like leaves, and generally with yellow flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.
- noun A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosæ. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the
genus Aspalathus offlowering plants . - noun obsolete A
thorny shrub yielding afragrant oil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of South African heathlike shrubs
Etymologies
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Examples
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And as the rainbow touching the herb aspalathus deprives it of its own smell and gives it another far more excellent, so sacred love touching our passions takes from them their earthly end, and bestows a heavenly one in its place.
Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884
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Lignum rhodianum, is by some supposed to be the substance indicated by the aspalathus, the plant which yields it is the
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Examples are red yeast rice, gugulipid and aspalathus linearis.
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"Truly," says our Blessed Father, in the same place, "as the rainbow touching the thorn _aspalathus_, makes it more odoriferous than the lily, so our Saviour's Redemption, touching our miseries makes them more beneficial and worthy of love than original innocence could ever have been.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Jean Pierre Camus 1618
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