Meanings of pancratium in English

Athletes struggled in the pancratium at many different points in the city.

Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling.

As a cut bloom, the Christmas Rose vies with the eucharis and pancratium.

And the same holds in boxing and in the pancratium?

Who ever contested at the pancratium with a breast-plate on?

And they even forbade the practice of the pancratium as ferocious and needlessly dangerous to life.

The forest was impenetrable; but M. Bonpland believed that large clumps of pancratium and other liliaceous plants were concealed in the neighbouring marshes.

Instead of the pancratium, let there be contests in which the combatants carry bows and wear light shields and hurl javelins and throw stones.

With Drosera two, and with Lupinus, Eucalyptus and Pancratium, several were formed each day.

But this is just as if a man after receiving blows should give up the Pancratium.

We remarked above all the delicious perfume of the Lirio hermoso,* (* Pancratium undulatum.)

The banks, shaded by tufts of Coccoloba barbadensis, and decorated with fine liliaceous plants,* (* Pancratium undulatum, Amaryllis nervosa.)