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the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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The precious stone onyx.
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Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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Borrowed from Latin onycha.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
ظُفْر الطِيب
(ẓufr aṭ-ṭīb)
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Middle Armenian:
ազֆար ըլ տիպ
(azfar əl tip)
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Middle Armenian:
դիվու ըղունկ
(divu əġunk)
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Finnish:
suitsutuskynsi
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Finnish:
kotilonkuori
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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German:
Riechschale
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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German:
Räucherklaue
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Ancient Greek:
ὄνυξ
(ónux)
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Hebrew:
שְׁחֵלֶת
(šəḥēleṯ)
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Hebrew:
צִפֹּרֶן
(ṣip̄ōren)
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Latin:
unguis odoratus
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Latin:
blatta byzantina
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Latin:
blatta byzantia
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Latin:
opercula cochlearum
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
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Latin:
onycha
— the operculum of certain gastropods used formerly as a drug
