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SHITTAH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: shittim   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia

Synonyms:

shittah; shittah tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("shittah" is a kind of...):

acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)

Meronyms (substance of "shittah"):

shittimwood (wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle)

Holonyms ("shittah" is a member of...):

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)

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