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English
(Φυλλίς) Feminine form of Greek Phyllidos, PHYLLIS means "foliage." In mythology, this is the name of a girl who killed herself over love and was transformed into an almond tree, meaning "foliage."
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German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by a tree that was particularly noticeable in some way, from Middle High German, Old High German boum ‘tree’, or else a nickname for a particularly tall person.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Baum ‘tree’, or a short form of any of the many ornamental surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Feigenbaum ‘fig tree’ (see Feige) and Mandelbaum ‘almond tree’ (see Mandel).English : probably a variant spelling of Balm, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of spices and perfumes, Middle English, Old French basme, balme, ba(u)me ‘balm’, ‘ointment’ (see Balmer).
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Greek American
Leafy foliage; green bough. In Greek legend, Phyllis was changed to an almond tree after her...
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English (chiefly West Yorkshire)
English (chiefly West Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place in the parish of Almondbury, West Yorkshire, named Crosland, from Old English cros ‘cross’ + land ‘newly cultivated land’.
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Biblical
Hidden in a cluster of fig trees.
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Hidden.
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German
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Separation, departure, an almond.
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hidden
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French, German, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian
Makes Garments; Almond
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separation; departure; an almond
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English, Old French (h)ermitage ‘hermitage’ (a derivative of Old French (h)ermite ‘hermit’), or a habitational name from a place named with this word. The name is very common in Yorkshire, where it has been traced to Hermitage Bridge, a locality in Almondbury, near Huddersfield.The name was first brought to North America
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Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Almond
Biblical
hidden in a cluster of fig trees
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Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil
The Archer; A Kind of Fir; Tree; A Kind of Mountain Almond; One of the Pandavas; From Hadria
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A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.
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A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.
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The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed.
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An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.
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One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.
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Anything shaped like an almond.
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The fruit of the almond tree.
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A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.
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A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.
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A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
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Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.
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The tree that bears the fruit; almond tree.
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A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.
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The almond furnace.
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An under almoner.
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of Almonry
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One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.
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The office of an almoner.
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The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.