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philadelphus

(ˌfɪləˈdɛlfəs)
n
(Plants) any shrub of the N temperate genus Philadelphus, cultivated for their strongly scented showy flowers: family Hydrangeaceae. See also mock orange 1
[C19: New Latin, from Greek philadelphon mock orange, literally: loving one's brother]
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Noun 1. [画像:philadelphus - any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters]philadelphus - any of various chiefly deciduous ornamental shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white sweet-scented flowers, single or in clusters; widely grown in temperate regions
genus Philadelphus - mock orange: type and sole genus of the subfamily Philadelphaceae; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae
mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius, syringa - large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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They are the Dattari Bronze Rider in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a male statuette and female draped figure in Britain, bronze portrait heads and busts attributed to Ptolemy II Philadelphus, and Egyptian bronzes of Ptolemy II.
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The Letter of Aristeas, a text written in Greek by a Jewish author of the Alexandrian diaspora, probably in the second century B.C., traces the circumstances under which a Greek translation of the sacred book of the Jews, the Pentateuch, was commissioned by King Ptolemy II Philadelphus. The letter situates this undertaking in the broader context of the foundation of the Library of Alexandria on the advice of Demetrius of Phalerum, who instigated the plan to gather together all the world's books, both those in the possession of the Greeks and those "of other peoples."
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