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lecythid, n. and a.|ˈlɛsɪθɪd|
[f. mod.L. family name Lecythidaceæ, f. the generic name Lecythis (P. Loefling Iter Hispanicum (1758) 189), f. Gr. λήκυθος a flask: see lecyth.]
A. n. A tropical American tree of the family Lecythidaceæ.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to a tree of this kind.
1871C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 113 The ground was strewn with large white flowers, whose peculiar shape told us at once of some other Lecythid tree high overhead. Ibid. 118 Some other Lecythids..go by the name of monkey-pots. |