Word: ries
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...sycomore that Zacchaeus climbed to catch a glimpse of Jesus was undoubtedly a fig tree.* The bulrushes that sheltered the infant Moses were almost certainly papyrus. Many plants that appear in the King James Version never grew in Palestine. Rye, for instance, is a cold-climate crop. The "rie" of the Bible is probably spelt, a primitive relative of wheat...
CAROLINE CHÉRIE (314 pp.) - Cecil Saint-Laurent-Prentice-Hall...