English Explanatory Dictionary

retem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A shrub with white flowers, possibly Retama raetam; the juniper of the (King James Version) Old Testament.

Word forms

retem raetam rethem

Etymology

Ultimately from a Semitic language. Compare Arabic رَتَم (ratam), Biblical Hebrew רותם

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