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  • The genus name Acacia is derived from the greek word acantha meaning spine, thorn or prickle and the species name xanthophloea is derived from the greek words xanthos meaning yellow and phloios phloea meaning bark.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • The genus name Acacia is derived from the greek word acantha meaning spine, thorn or prickle and the species name xanthophloea is derived from the greek words xanthos meaning yellow and phloios phloea meaning bark.

    Healing qualities of the Fever Tree 2007

  • Apollo in Homer is [Greek: chrusaoros], that is to say, bearing a golden sword; while [Greek: xanthos], which has been mistranslated to mean fair, means reddish brown and brown,

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • Achilles is [Greek: xanthos] which, as was said before, means reddish brown and brown.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • [Greek: xanthos] and remember, if you please, that he is in direct descent from Epaphos, the swarthy ancestor of the Pelasgic houses.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • [Greek: Alla s 'es Êlysion pedion kai peirata gaiês athanatoi pempsousin, hothi xanthos Rhadamanthys, têper rhêïstê biotê pelei anthrôpoisin; ou niphetos, out' ar cheimôn polys oute pot 'ombros, all' aiei Zephyroio ligy pneiontas aêtas

    The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

  • [Greek: alla s 'es Elysion pedion kai peirata gaiaes athanatoi pempsousin, hothi xanthos Rhadamanthus tae per rhaeistae biotae pelei anthr_opoisin, ou niphetos, out' ar cheim_on polus, oute pot 'ombros all' aiei Zephuroio ligu pneiontas aaetas _okeanos aniaesin anapsuchein anthr_opous.

    The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • A xanthoma (or xanthomata or xanthomatosis) (from Greek xanthos,??????,

    We Blog A Lot 2009

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