myrobalan
English
Alternative forms
- myrobalun, myrobolan, myrobolane [17th c.]
Etymology
From Middle French mirabolan, and its source, Latin myrobalanum (“ben nut”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μυροβάλανος (murobálanos), from μύρον (múron) + βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn; date”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mʌɪˈɹɒbələn/
Noun
myrobalan (plural myrobalans)
- A plum-like fruit from various trees of the genus Terminalia, formerly used in medicine and now in the dyeing industry; also, the tree itself.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:
- turbith, agaric, myrobolanes, hermodactyls, from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […].
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