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myrobolan

myrobolan 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 myrobolan

pluralmyrobolans

Questions about myrobolan

What is myrobolan the alternative form of?
Myrobolan is the alternative form of myrobalan.

Words near myrobolan in the dictionary

  1. myrobella plums
  2. myroblytai
  3. myroblyte
  4. myroblytes
  5. myroblytic
  6. myrobolan
  7. myrobolane
  8. myrobolanes
  9. myrobolans
  10. myrologies
  11. myrologist

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