Thyine wood
Thyine wood is a 15th-century English name for a wood from the tree known botanically as
In Rome, wood from this tree was called citrum, "citrus wood". It was considered very valuable, and was used for making articles of furniture by the Greeks and Romans. Craftsmen who worked in citrus wood and ivory had their own guild (collegium).[1]
Thyine wood is mentioned in the
The resin is used as the basis for euparal, a mounting medium used in microscopy.
Notes
- ^ Eborarii and citriarii: Koenraad Verboven, "The Associative Order: Status and Ethos among Roman Businessmen in Late Republic and Early Empire," Athenaeum 95 (2007), preprint p. 21.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Thyine wood". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.