Meanings
nounbalsamarium (plural balsamariums or balsamaria)
plural balsamariums · plural balsamaria
- An ancient vessel for holding balsam.
Ms. Wight said that as recently as May the museum bought an important late Hellenistic or early Roman bronze balsamarium, or oil vessel, in the shape of a boxer’s head from a private collection in the United States that has documentation stretching back to the 1870s.
2007 June 26, Randy Kennedy, “Collecting Antiquities, Cautiously, at the Getty”, in New York Times
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with balsamarium
herbariumfusariumimaginariumvivariumsamariumcolumbariumseaquariumoceanariumarmamentariumacarinariumallylsamariumantiquariumaquaterrariumargentarium-ariumascidiariumaviculariumbullariumbunariumcaldariumcalendariumcalidariumcalvariumcanarium
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APA
balsamarium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balsamarium
MLA
“balsamarium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balsamarium. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “balsamarium,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/balsamarium.
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