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Examples of spikenard
spikenard
The salt is mixed with high-altitude herbs like spikenard that apparently calm the senses.
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Piper longum was imported from India, as was spikenard, used to season game birds and sea urchins.
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There are cowslips, yellow rattle and ploughman's spikenard.
From the guardian.co.uk
Your cheeks are an orchard of pomegranates, an orchard full of rare fruits, spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon.
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The cleaned pine cones should be finely ground and mixed together with saffron, spikenard and wine-soaked dates, says the text, which dates from between 550 and 650 AD.
From the newscientist.com
Periplus also indicates that the chief exports of the ancient Tamils were pepper, malabathrum, pearls, ivory, silk, spikenard, diamonds, sapphires, and tortoiseshell.
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In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard, and myrrh, and of these materials builds a pile on which it deposits itself, and dying, breathes out its last breath amidst odors.
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- Nard: an aromatic ointment used in antiquity
- Spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora or Nardostachys jatamansi; also called nard, nardin, and muskroot) is a flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, India and Nepal. The plant grows to about 1 m in height and has pink, bell-shaped flowers. ...
- A perfumed ointment; The plant from which the ointment comes
- The aromatic extract from the Indian plant Nardostachys jalamansi. The term was also used for the plant itself.
- (Heb. nerd ), a much-valued perfume (Sol 1:12; Sol 4:13, Sol 4:14). It was "very precious", i.e., very costly (Mar 14:3; Joh 12:3, Joh 12:5). It is the root of an Indian plant, the Nardostachys jatamansi, of the family of Valeriance, growing on the Himalaya mountains. ...
- (A. V. Song of Sol., i, 12; D. V., 11; iv, 14; Mark, xiv, 3; John, xii, 3), a fragrant essential oil obtained from the root of Nardostachys jatamansi, D. C. ...
- An aromatic plant of northern India whose root was used in the preparation of medicinal ointments for curing bruises; the very smell of the plant was said to destroy fleas.
- An east Indian fragrant plant that was used to make expensive perfume.
- Or nard, an expensive perfumed oil (Song of Solomon 4:13-14; John 12:3), obtained either from the leaves of a desert grass (Cymbopogon schoenanthus) or, traditionally, the valerian relative Nardostachys jatamansi from the Himalayas.
