Crossword-Solution: XYLOBALSAMUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Xylobalsamum | n. | The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron Gileadense). |
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| the dried twigs, or the wood, of the balm of Gilead tree | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEZACM
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eruption
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Sentences with XYLOBALSAMUM (3)
The Seeds and green Branches, are likewise us’d against all Distempers that the _Balsam_ it self is: The same Virtue is ascrib’d to the Wood; but the _Balsam_, term’d by the _Greeks_, _Opobalsamum_, is the strongest, the Seed or _Carpobalsamum_ more gentle, and the Wood or _Xylobalsamum_ the weakest of all.
These cuttings are called xylobalsamum,[594] and are boiled down for mixing with unguents, and in the manufactories have been substituted for the juices of the shrub.
This last was the perfume most in vogue in the time of the Comic poet Menander: a considerable time after that known as “megalium” took its place, being so called as holding the very highest rank;[730] it was composed of oil of balanus, balsamum, calamus, sweet-rush, xylobalsamum,[731] cassia, and resin.