sebesten

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?]

Noun

sebesten (plural sebestens)

  1. The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia myxa and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
  2. (West Indies) The similar fruit of Cordia sebestana.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sebesten in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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