capparis

The capparis spinosa is a common desert-growth and the sticks about a span long (usually called Miswák), are sold in quantities at Meccah after being dipped in Zemzem water.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In the original we have O spray (or branch) of capparis-shrub (aráki) which has been thinned of leaf and fruit (tujna, i.e., whose fruit, the hymen, has been plucked before and not by me) I see thee (aráka) against me sinning

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Capparides, and was thought to be a capparis; the gouty habit of the stem, which was soft and spongy, gave it an appearance of disease: but as all the specimens, from the youngest plant to the full-grown tree, possessed the same deformed appearance, it was evidently the peculiarity of its habit.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

The only plants that were found upon this rock were a prickly capparis and a leafless ficus, the latter bearing clusters of small, whitish, globular fruit: these plants, with a small hibiscus, were the chief productions of the rock; and have probably been produced from seeds deposited there by birds.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

It is oftentimes supposed that the stalk of the Origanum maru would be too short and too slender for the purposes described in this passage, and that another plant with a longer and firmer stem, for instance, the caper-plant (capparis spinosa) is the one meant by the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

I know that the branch has been plucked before thee; So, O capparis-branch, thou dost wrong, it is plain.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

[FN#41] Araka, a capparis-tree, (acc.) means also, "I see thee."

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

A few specimens of the native orange-tree, capparis, were seen.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

Two stunted specimens of the native orange-tree or capparis were seen where I had left the two casks.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

During the day we saw some native poplars, quandong, or native peach, capparis, or native orange, and a few scented sandal-wood-trees; nearly all of these different kinds of trees were very stunted in their growth.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866