OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 54376

myrobalan

/mʌɪˈɹɒbələn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mirobálano
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.
Myrrh, sweet marjoram, and the plum-like myrobalan fruit were likewise usual ingredients of aromatic preparations.
turbith, agaric, myrobolanes, hermodactyls, from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […].
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