Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Vitex, especially two cultivated species (V. agnus-castus and V. negundo) having aromatic, palmately compound leaves and clusters of usually lilac flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Vitex Agnus-castus. See
agnus castus , under agnus.
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- noun A shrub native to the Mediterranean region (Vitex agnus-castus).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Partial translation of Medieval Latin agnus castus : Greek agnos, chaste tree (of unknown origin, but associated by folk etymology with Greek hagnos, pure, since it was strewn in bedchambers during Greek religious festivals requiring sexual abstinence ) + Latin castus, chaste.]
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