Orontean

adj — 2 senses

Orontean

adj

Etymology From Latin Orontēus + -an. By surface analysis, Orontes + -ean.

1

Of or relating to the Orontes.

2

Metonymically, Poetic Syrian.

And hair perfumed with Orontean myrrh.1872, James Cranstoun, transl., The Elegies of Albius Tibullus, page 171:

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