Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fragrant wood, the aloes or lign-aloes of the Scriptures.
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- noun
agalloch
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Examples
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The perfume emanated by the exudation of the Amytis agallochum issues out of the bodies.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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It filled the room, just as it had filled the big hall at the Kirkstone house, the almost sickening fragrance of agallochum burned in a cigarette.
The River's End James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Oriental tree (Num. 24: 6), probably the agallochum or aloe-wood.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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_ Lignaloes or agallochum, to be distinguished from the medicinal aloes.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884
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The fragrant ointment is the product of an Indian shrub, Aquilaria agallochum; and the bitter purgative is from the true Aloes, A.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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The modern Greeks call silk [Greek: metaxa.]] [Footnote 3: [Greek: "tzandana,"] probably "sandalwood;" sometimes called _agallochum.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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