Definition of Genista raetam

1. Noun. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista.

Exact synonyms: Juniper, Juniper Bush, Raetam, Retama Raetam, Retem
Group relationships: Genus Retama, Retama
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genista Raetam

Geneva mechanisms
Geneva wheel
Geneva wheels
Genevan
Genevanism
Genevans
Geneve
Genevese
Genevieve
Genf
Genghis Khan
Gengou phenomenon
Genipa Americana
Genista anglica
Genista hispanica
Genista raetam
Genista tinctoria
Genk
Gennari
Gennari's band
Gennari's stria
Genoa
Genoan
Genoans
Genoese
Genova
Genovese
Genseric
Gent
Gentiana

Literary usage of Genista raetam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1841)
"... genista raetam of Forskal,1 with small whitish variegated blossoms, growing in the water-courses of the ..."

2. Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land by Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (1858)
"... genista raetam' of Forskal. Robinson, B. Re- Karches, vol. i, p. 124.—This is the Hebrew rothem, the plant under which Elijah rested in the wilderness ..."

3. The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1880)
"... calls it genista raetam. It is, therefore, a species of broom, and not that kind of juniper which bears the famous berries, and whose oil assists in the ..."

4. The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1880)
"... and Forskal calls it genista raetam. It is, therefore, a species of broom, and not that kind of juniper which bears the famous berries, and whose oil ..."

5. The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1859)
"The Arabic word is retem, the same as the Hebrew, and Forskal calls it genista raetam. It is, therefore, a species of broom, and not that kind of juniper ..."

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