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myrobalans

myrobalans is the plural 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...

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Questions about myrobalans

What is myrobalans the plural of?
Myrobalans is the plural of myrobalan.

Words near myrobalans in the dictionary

  1. Myrnohrad
  2. myrobalan
  3. myrobalan plum
  4. myrobalan plums
  5. myrobalanitannin
  6. myrobalans
  7. myrobalun
  8. myrobaluns
  9. myrobella plum
  10. myrobella plums
  11. myroblytai

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