Greek fire
noun
: an incendiary composition used in warfare by the Byzantine Greeks that is said to have burst into flame on wetting
Word History
First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined above
- sword dollar
- sword fern
- sword grass
- sword knot
- sword lily
- sword mat
- sword of dam
- sword of Damocles
- sword sedge
- sword service
- sword side
- sword stick
- sword sucker
- sword-and-buckler
- sword-bearer
- sword-billed hummingbird
- sword-plant
- sword-swallower
- sword-swallowing
- swordbill
- swordbills
- sworded
- sworder
- sworders
- swordfish