alabastrum

alabastrum (plural alabastra or alabastrums)

1. An alabastron, or ancient pottery container for oil.
2. (botany) A flower bud[1]

• alabastrum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.laˈbas.trum/, [äɫ̪äˈbäs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.laˈbas.trum/, [äläˈbäst̪rum]

alabastrum n (genitive alabastrī); second declension

1. Alternative form of alabaster

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• alabastrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alabastrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alabastrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin