Chrysosperm

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The seed of gold; an alchemical means of creating gold. obsolete, uncountable

    "Of your elixir, your lac Virginis, Your stone, your med'cine , and your chrysosperm"

  2. 2
    Sunlight, which turns the world golden. poetic, uncountable

    "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;"

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"Of your elixir, your lac Virginis, Your stone, your med'cine , and your chrysosperm"

Etymology

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

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