AGNUS-CASTUS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Agnus-castus A shrub of the Vitex tribe, called agnos (chaste) by the Greeks, because the Athenian ladies, at the feast of Ceres, used to strew their couches with vitex leaves, as a palladium of chastity. The monks, mistaking agnos (chaste) for agnus (a lamb), but knowing the use made of the plant, added castus to explain its character, making it chaste-lamb. (For another similar blunder, see I.H.S.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: AGNUS-CASTUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-n-s-s-s-t-u-u"
	-4 letters: satangs.
	-5 letters: angsts, august, cantus, sancta, sangas, satang, saunas, scants, stangs.
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