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mirabolan

mirabolan is the alternative form of myrobalan.

Meaning of myrobalan

Noun

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.
    • turbith, agaric, myrobolanes, hermodactyls, from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […].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...

Forms of mirabolan

pluralmirabolans

Questions about mirabolan

What is mirabolan the alternative form of?
Mirabolan is the alternative form of myrobalan.

Words near mirabolan in the dictionary

  1. mirabilite
  2. mirabilites
  3. mirability
  4. mirabilysin
  5. mirable
  6. mirabolan
  7. mirabolans
  8. mirabolic
  9. Mirac
  10. mirach
  11. mirachs

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