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What is a pancratium?

What is a pancratium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) An ancient athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
  2. (botany) Any of the genus Pancratium of African and Eurasian perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family. The flowers are large, white and fragrant.
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As a cut bloom, the Christmas Rose vies with the eucharis and pancratium.
The pancratium was a contest in which boxing and wrestling were both allowable.
In the pancratium it is in our power to desist and not to receive blows.
Among this and other plants a lovely white amaryllis, the pancratium Maritimum, with a sweet and powerful perfume, springs up.
Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling.
This difference existed between the wrestling and the pancratium of the Olympic games.

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