Carya

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Refers to the Biblical acacia wood that was used to build the wilderness Tabernacle. Brave. Cassandra was a Trojan prophetess, daughter of King Priam. This name became popular in medieval Britain, and fashionable in the USA in the mid-2Oth century. A diminutive of Casirnir, Cassandra, or Cathedne. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin Katharina, from the Greek Aikaterina. Honorable. Biblical; acacia wood was used to build the wilderness Tabernacle. Observant; alert; vigorous. Pure, clear. Form of the Latin 'Katharina', from the Greek Aikaterina'. It was borne by a number of saints, including St Catherine of Alexandria, a 4th century martyr who suffered torture on a spiked wheel. Honorable.