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The acacia.
“The scented acacia of Palestine furnished the shittim wood so much esteemed by the ancient Jews.”—Bible Flowers, p. 142.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.