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Headword:
*muri/kh
Adler number: mu,1437
Translated headword: tamarisk
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of plant.[1]
"There was a vast plain, on which tamarisks had been planted [...]".[2]
Greek Original:*muri/kh: ei)=dos futou=. pedi/on h)=n a)xane/s, e)n w(=| muri=kai/ te e)peph/gesan.
Notes:
[1] [Again, intrusively, in
mu 1438, q.v.]
Tamarix tetandra (
Theophrastus,
Enquiry into Plants 3.3.9.) or
T. articulata (ibidem). There is quite a collection of trees and bushes that have vaguely similar names in Greek:
mu/ric (Genesta sp)
murto/n (myrtle-berry
mu 1461),
mu/rtos or
murrinh/, myrtle,
Myrtos communis),
mu/rris (Sweet cicely,
Myrris odorata) and
mu/rra, Aeolic for
smu/rna,
sigma 752).
[2] Abbreviated from
alpha 4670, q.v.
Translated by: Carl Widstrand on 15 January 2000@16:57:25.
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