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nubk

nubk is the alternative form of nabk.

Meaning of nabk

Noun

nabk (plural nabks)

  1. Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
    • Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]1870, Christian Henry Bateman, editor, The Bible class magazine, volume 10, page 61
  2. The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.

Forms of nubk

pluralnubks

Questions about nubk

What is nubk the alternative form of?
Nubk is the alternative form of nabk.

Words near nubk in the dictionary

  1. nubility
  2. nubilose
  3. nubilous
  4. Nubiology
  5. nubivagant
  6. nubk
  7. nubks
  8. nublet
  9. nublets
  10. nublike
  11. nubs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nubk (page history and authors); nabk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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