peridexion

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A legendary tree believed to grow in India that attracts doves and repels dragons.
    — The inscription appears to represent a very rare medieval allegory for the church, found in only a very few medieval manuscripts and known as the peridexion tree. The story is that the peridexion tree was to be found only in far-off India, and that it bore the most marvellously sweet fruit that attracted birds to its branches from far and wide. However, at the base of the tree lived a dragon or serpent.

词形变化

peridexions plural

词源

From Ancient Greek περιδέξιον (peridéxion), used in the Physiologus.
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