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Roxburgh
(gcide) | Roxburgh \Rox"burgh\ (?; Scot. ?), n. [From the third duke of
Roxburgh (Scotland), a noted book collector who had his books
so bound.]
A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather,
the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front
and bottom left uncut.
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Balsamodendron Roxburghii
(gcide) | bdellium \bdel"lium\, n. [L., fr. Gr. bde`llion; cf. Heb.
b'dolakh bdellium (in sense 1).]
1. An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (--Gen.
ii. 12, and --Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a
precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber
found in Arabia.
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2. A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India,
Persia, and Africa.
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Note: Indian bdellium or false myrrh is an exudation from
Balsamodendron Roxburghii. Other kinds are known as
African bdellium, Sicilian bdellium, etc.
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cassia roxburghii
(wn) | Cassia roxburghii
n 1: East Indian tree having long pods containing a black
cathartic pulp used as a horse medicine [syn: {horse
cassia}, Cassia roxburghii, Cassia marginata] |
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