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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L.

aspalathus

, Gr. [GREEK].]

(Bot.)

(a)

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.

Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

(b)

A genus of plants of the natural order

Leguminosæ

. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

See also: Aspalathus

Aspalathus cordata

aspalathus ‎(plural aspalathuses)

Any of the genus Aspalathus of flowering plants.
(obsolete) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.
- Bible, Ecclesiasticus 24:15
  I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax […]