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Webster 1913 Edition
Pancratium
‖
Pan-cra′ti-um
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr.
παγκράτιον
a complete contest, fr. παγκρατήσ
all-powerful; πᾶς
, πᾶν
, all + κράτοσ
strength.] 1.
(Gr. Antiq.)
An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
2.
(Bot.)
A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus
Hymenocallis
.