Found 1 hit - Term: red mace, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mace \mace\, n. f. macis, l. macis, macir, gr. ?; cf. skr.
makaranda the nectar or honey of a flower, a fragrant mango.
bot.
a kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. see
nutmeg.
1913 webster
note: red mace is the aril of myristica tingens, and
white mace that of myristica otoba, -- east indian
trees of the same genus with the nutmeg tree.
1913 webster
see also:
nutmeg red mace myristica tingens white mace myristica otoba
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