Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The tree which bears the ivory-nut.

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  • Page view page image: anointing the priests; the phœnicobalanus, which bears an intoxicating fruit, and gives to the priests who eat of it divining powers; the graceful palma, or sheath for the palm-flowers; the almond-tree, brilliant with its flowering branches; the wine-giving myxa; the ivory-palm fruit, of which censers are made; the mimosa Nilotica, and the golden olive of Arsinoë.

    The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage 1859

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