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chrysosperm

chrysosperm noun: the seed of gold; an alchemical means of creating gold.

Noun

chrysosperm (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The seed of gold; an alchemical means of creating gold.
    • Of your elixir, your lac Virginis, Your stone, your med'cine , and your chrysosperm
    • How sir! When you have not tried my chrysosperm and marchesyte?1857, Thomas (of Swarraton, armiger, pseud.), The Noble Traytour, page 232
  2. (poetic) Sunlight, which turns the world golden.
    • Of dusky light escaped the journeying clouds That hid the ample sun and left his beams A deeper hue of topaz, chrysosperm To milt the earth with harvest;1904, John Davidson, Testaments: The testament of a prime minister, page 50
    • The chrysosperm in sunbeams pent A largesse squandered.1909, John Davidson, “Liverpool Street Station”, in Fleet Street: And Other Poems, page 49

Origin of chrysosperm

From Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, semen”), equivalent to chryso- + sperm.

Questions about chrysosperm

What does chrysosperm mean?
Chrysosperm means the seed of gold; an alchemical means of creating gold.
What part of speech is chrysosperm?
Chrysosperm is a noun.

Words near chrysosperm in the dictionary

  1. chrysoprasus
  2. chrysopsin
  3. chrysopsins
  4. chrysorhamnin
  5. chrysorhamnine
  6. chrysosperm
  7. chrysosporia
  8. chrysosporium
  9. Chrysostom
  10. chrysostomatic
  11. chrysostomic

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