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    SHITTAH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: shittim  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acaciaplay

    Synonyms:

    shittah; shittah tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("shittah" is a kind of...):

    acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)

    Meronyms (substance of "shittah"):

    shittimwood (wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle)

    Holonyms ("shittah" is a member of...):

    genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)

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