Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

peridexion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: peridex-ion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A legendary tree believed to grow in India that attracts doves and repels dragons.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: περιδέξιον

Inflected Forms

peridexions (plural)

Questions

What does peridexion mean?: A legendary tree believed to grow in India that attracts doves and repels dragons.
Where does peridexion come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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