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myrobolane

myrobolane is the obsolete 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 myrobolane

pluralmyrobolanes

Questions about myrobolane

What is myrobolane the obsolete form of?
Myrobolane is the obsolete form of myrobalan.

Words near myrobolane in the dictionary

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

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