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myrobalun

myrobalun 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 myrobalun

pluralmyrobaluns

Questions about myrobalun

What is myrobalun the alternative form of?
Myrobalun is the alternative form of myrobalan.

Words near myrobalun in the dictionary

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

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