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Rhamnus   Listen
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Rhamnus  n.  (Bot.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European Rhamnus catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.





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... Tragoedians. She is the enemy of excessive prosperity and its attendant excessive pride and arrogance; she humbles those who have been elevated too high, tames their pride and checks their prosperous career. Nemesis had a temple and statue at Rhamnus in Attica.] ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long


Words linked to "Rhamnus" :   Rhamnus californicus, Rhamnus purshianus, Rhamnus frangula, buckthorn family, family Rhamnaceae, buckthorn, Rhamnus croceus, Rhamnaceae, dicot genus


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