myrobalan
Americannoun
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the dried plumlike fruit of certain tropical trees of the genus Phyllanthus, used in dyeing, tanning, and making ink.
noun
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the dried plumlike fruit of various tropical trees of the genus Terminalia, used in dyeing, tanning, ink, and medicine
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a dye extracted from this fruit
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another name for cherry plum
Etymology
Origin of myrobalan
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin myrobalanum < Greek myrobálanos kind of fruit, equivalent to mýro ( n ) balsam + bálanos acorn
Example Sentences
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Butt′on-hook, a hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the button-holes; Butt′on-wood, a small West Indian evergreen tree of the myrobalan family: the plane-tree of the United States—also Butt′on-ball and incorrectly Sycamore.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Hornbeam, beech, myrobalan or cherry plum and blackthorn also have their advantages, hornbeam being proof against great exposure, blackthorn thriving on poor land and possessing great impenetrability and so on.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
Purge gently with cassia, rhubarb, senna and myrobalan.
The prune, in fact, is more apt to overgrow the myrobalan than the almond, and the myrobalan will not do well on light soils likely to dry out as the almond will.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
One seedling of the cherry plum is about as good a myrobalan as another.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
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