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English
Noun
alabastrum (plural alabastra or alabastrums)
- An alabastron, or ancient pottery container for oil.
- (botany) A flower bud[1]
References
- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “.] Alabastrum.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, , New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G P Putnam & Co., , →OCLC.
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
alabastrum n (genitive alabastrī); second declension
- Alternative form of alabaster
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- alabastrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “alabastrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “alabastrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin