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saleb

saleb is the alternative form of salep.

Meaning of salep

Noun

salep (countable and uncountable, plural saleps)

  1. A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as early-purple orchids (Orchis mascula).
    • Where finally the draining of marſhy grounds can not be effected at a reſponſible expence, ſome plants may perhaps be cultivated with profit to the cultivator; as in ſome ſituations the feſtica fluitans, floating feſcue, callitriche, ſtar-graſs; or in others the orchis for the purpoſe of making...1800, Erasmus Darwin, “Sect. XI. Of Draining and Watering Lands.”, in Phytologia: Or The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. With the Theory of Draining Morasses and with an Improved...

Questions about saleb

What is saleb the alternative form of?
Saleb is the alternative form of salep.

Words near saleb in the dictionary

  1. saleability
  2. saleable
  3. saleableness
  4. saleables
  5. saleably
  6. saleb
  7. salebrosities
  8. salebrosity
  9. salebrous
  10. saleeite
  11. Saleem

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