myrobalan

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Etymology

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From Latin myrobalanum, myrobalanus (ben nut), from Ancient Greek μυροβάλανος (murobálanos), from μύρον (múron, perfume) + βάλανος (bálanos, acorn).

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myrobalan (plural myrobalans)

  1. 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.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:
      turbith, agaric, myrobolanes, hermodactyls, from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […].

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Learned borrowing from Latin myrobalanum, myrobalanus.

Noun

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myrobalan m (plural myrobalans)

  1. Alternative form of myrobolan

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