peridexion
English
The peridexion tree in a medieval bestiary
Etymology
From Ancient Greek περιδέξιον (peridéxion), used in the Physiologus.
Noun
peridexion (plural peridexions)
- A legendary tree believed to grow in India that attracts doves and repels dragons.
- 2015, Matthew Champion, chapter 17, in Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 165:
- The inscription appears to represent a very rare medieval allegory for the church, found in only a very few medieval manuscripts and known as the peridexion tree. The story is that the peridexion tree was to be found only in far-off India, and that it bore the most marvellously sweet fruit that attracted birds to its branches from far and wide. However, at the base of the tree lived a dragon or serpent.
Translations
legendary tree
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Further reading
peridexion on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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