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Webster 1913 Edition

Xiphidium

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Xi-phid′i-um

,

p

rop.

Noun.

[NL., from Gr. [GREEK], dim. of

ξίφοσ

sword.]

(Bot.)

A genus of plants of the order

Haemodraceae

, having two-ranked, sword-shaped leaves.