More fully almug tree. A tree mentioned in the Bible (2 Chron. 2:8, 1 Kings 10:11), said to have been brought as timber from Ophir and used for…
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > unidentified or variously identified > [noun] > mythical or biblical (6) almug1539 More fully almug tree. A tree mentioned in the Bible (2 Chron. 2:8, 1 Kings 10:11), said to have been brought as timber from Ophir and used for… teil1568 In the Bibles of 1568 and 1611, used in one place to render Hebrew ēlāh (elsewhere rendered ‘oak’ and once ‘elm’). goose-tree1597 the tree from which barnacle-geese were believed to be produced (cf. note at barnacle, n.2 1). cerbas1605 A supposed tree of vast circumference, formerly rumoured to grow in the West Indies. heaven-tree1835 (a) Botany a tree of the genus Ailanthus, esp. Ailanthus altissima; a tree of heaven (cf. ailanthus, n.); (b) Cultural Anthropology a mythical… heaven-plant1865 = heaven-tree n. (b). |
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