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"Spikenard" Definition

noun

A North American plant (Aralia racemosa) having small greenish flowers, aromatic roots, and bipinnately compound leaves.
An aromatic perennial herb (Nardostachys jatamansi) of the Himalaya Mountains, having rose-purple flowers. Also called nard.
An ointment of antiquity, probably prepared from this aromatic plant.
A fragrant ointment of the ancients.
A Himalayan aromatic plant () of the valerian family from which spikenard is believed to have been derived.

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