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单词 alabandic
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Alabandicn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Alabandicus.
Etymology: < classical Latin Alabandicus of or belonging to Alabanda (Pliny: see note) < Alabanda (ancient Greek Ἀλάβανδα ), a city of Caria + -icus -ic suffix.Pliny uses classical Latin Alabandicus to designate a kind of rose (as Alabandica , feminine, designating rosa rose); also to designate a kind of hemp and a kind of precious stone. Compare earlier use of classical Latin Alabandica in an English context:1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 66v Pliny maketh mention of sundry sortes of them: one sort he calleth Milesia,..an other Alabandica [L. Alabandica], with white leaues.In the 1692 edition of the text cited in quot. 1676 this word was misprinted as Alabandie, which was subsequently copied by later dictionaries; compare:1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Alabundie, a kind of Rose not very sweet.1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Alabandy, the damask rose.
Obsolete. rare.
A kind of rose with whitish petals; also more fully Alabandic rose.
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1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Alabandic, a kinde of a Rose with whitish leaves.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Alabandic, a kind of Rose, not very sweet.
1839 Gardener’s Mag. July 381 The Milesian and Alabandic roses were probably foreign kinds; the former deriving its appellation from Miletus..; the latter from Alabanda, a city of Caria in Asia Minor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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