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OPUNTIA

Volume 3 · 54 words · 1771 Edition

in botany. See CACTUS.

OR, in heraldry, denotes yellow, or gold colour. See COLOUR and METAL.

In the coats of noblemen, it is blazoned topaz; and in those of sovereign princes, fol.

It is represented in engraving by small points or dots, scattered all over the field or bearing. See Pl. 134. fig. 5.