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sebesten

UK/sɪˈbɛs.tən/

sebesten noun: a medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.

Noun

sebesten (plural sebestens)

  1. A medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.
    • 2. Sebesten sylvestris. The wilde Sebesten.
    • The wild Sebesten is in all things like the other, but that it groweth lower, more like unto a hedge bush, and with lesser and thinner leaves; the flowers and fruit are alike but lesse.1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, London: Thomas Cotes, page 252
  2. The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit from these plants, eaten and used medicinally against pectoral diseases, also in a mixture called diasebesten, and for glue.

sebesten meaning in Tamil

sebesten in Tamil

மருந்தாக முன்பு பயன்படுத்தப்பட்ட, திராட்சை போன்ற பழம்

Synonyms of sebesten

Forms of sebesten

pluralsebestens

Origin of sebesten

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”).

Words formed from sebesten

Phrases with sebesten

Questions about sebesten

What does sebesten mean?
Sebesten means a medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.
What is sebesten in Tamil?
Sebesten in Tamil is மருந்தாக முன்பு பயன்படுத்தப்பட்ட, திராட்சை போன்ற பழம். See Sebesten meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sebesten?
Sebesten is a noun.
How do you pronounce sebesten?
Sebesten is pronounced /sɪˈbɛs.tən/ (UK).
What is the plural of sebesten?
The plural of sebesten is sebestens.

Words near sebesten in the dictionary

  1. Sebergham
  2. Sebesta
  3. sebestan
  4. sebestans
  5. Sebestas
  6. sebesten
  7. sebesten plum
  8. sebesten plums
  9. sebestens
  10. sebetralstat
  11. Sebeș

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sebesten (page history and authors); sebesten (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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