- teil tree:
- The teil-tree is the linden or lime-tree, a species very common in Palestine; the leaf of which resembles that of the laurel, and its flower that of the olive. But the original ailah which our translators render the oak (but here distinguished from allon the oak), and Bp. Lowth the ilex in "For¹ they shall be ashamedª° of the oaksª¹ which¹ ye have desired,ª° and ye shall be confoundedª° for the gardensª¹ that¹ ye have chosen.ª° ... For¹ ye shall be¹ as an oakª whose leafª fadeth,ª° and as a gardenª that¹ hath no¹ water.ª" {Isa 1:29-30}, probably denotes, as Celsius contends, the terebintḣ It is an evergreen of moderate size, but having the top and branches large in proportion to the trunk; leaves, like those of the olive, but green intermixed with red and purple; flowers, like those of the vine, growing in bunches, and purple; fruit, of a ruddy purple, the size of a juniper berry, hanging in clusters, very juicy, and containing a single seed of the size of a grape stone; wood, hard and fibrous, from which a resin distils; with an excresence scattered among the leaves, of the size of a chestnut, of a purple colour, variegated with green and white.
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