rambutans

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