PANCRATIUM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

2.
n.

A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.


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