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ramboostan

ramboostan is the obsolete form of rambutan.

Meaning of rambutan

Noun

rambutan (plural rambutans)

  1. A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
  2. The edible fruit of this tree.
    • The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116

Forms of ramboostan

pluralramboostans

Questions about ramboostan

What is ramboostan the obsolete form of?
Ramboostan is the obsolete form of rambutan.

Words near ramboostan in the dictionary

  1. rambolt
  2. rambolts
  3. Rambomania
  4. rambong
  5. rambongs
  6. ramboostan
  7. ramboostans
  8. rambootan
  9. rambootans
  10. rambooze
  11. rambos

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