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n. - Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.

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  • Dá energia para a cozinha de uma escola primária e mais tarde irá providenciar energia para as necessidades totais da escola, este outdoor ainda retem energia suficiente...
  • Reia retem sedate Saturday, September 12, 2009 more stats
  • (Heb. rothem), called by the Arabs retem, and known as Spanish broom; ranked under the genus genista.
  • Beer-sheba to Horeb -- a wide expanse of sand hills, covered with the retem (not juniper, but broom shrubs), whose tall and spreading branches, with their white leaves,...
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