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Webster 1913 Edition

Aspalathus

‖

As-pal′a-thus

,

Noun.

[L.

aspalathus

, Gr. [GREEK].]

(Bot.)

(a)

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.

Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

(b)

A genus of plants of the natural order

Leguminosæ

. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.