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Garlic
Morrish Bible Dictionary
shum. The well-known vegetable much esteemed as a condiment in the East. The garlic of Egypt is the Allium sativum of the botanists, but there are different species in Palestine, where it is cultivated and prized. The Israelites longed for it when in the wilderness. Numbers 11:5 .
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Morrish, George. Entry for 'Garlic'. Morrish Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/mbd/g/garlic.html. 1897.