The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pancratium \Pan*cra"ti*um\, n. [L., fr. Gr. pagkra`tion a complete contest, fr. pagkrath`s all-powerful; pa^s, pa^n, all + kra`tos strength.]
(Gr. Antiq.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
(Bot.) A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
Wikipedia
Pancratium is a genus of African and Eurasian perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae
The flowers are large, white and fragrant. The perianth tube and the corona are present. It differs from the similar Hymenocallis in its numerous seeds with a thin black skin. Plants belonging to the genus Pancratium have been found in prehistoric Cretan frescoes.
The name "Pancratium" is derived from the Greek and means "all-strength", probably referring to the strength of a plant that can tolerate extreme climates. Pancratium species often inhabit extremely dry and sandy areas.
Usage examples of "pancratium".
The Lacedaemonians forbid their young men to contend in the pancratium, or with the caestus, in which games the defeated party has to acknowledge himself beaten.
With Drosera two, and with Lupinus, Eucalyptus and Pancratium, several were formed each day.
That was a wonderful thing to do when one thinks what the Pancratium is.
Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling.
Pancratium littorale, movement of leaves, 255 Paraheliotropism, or diurnal sleep of leaves, 445 Passiflora gracilis, circumnutation and nyctitropic movement of leaves, 383, 384 --, apogeotropic movement of tendrils, 510 --, sensitiveness of tendrils, 550 Pelargonium zonale, circumnutation of stem, 203 --, and downward movement of young leaf, 232, 233, 269 Petioles, the rising of beneficial to plant at night, 402 Petunia violacea, downward movement and circumnutation of very young leaf, 248, 249, 269.