small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit; used in Europe as budding stock
It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing
myrobalan
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[ mI-'rä-b&-l&n, m& ] (noun.) circa 1530. From Middle French mirabolan, and its source, Latin myrobalanum (“ben nut”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μυροβάλανος, from μύρον + βάλανος (“acorn; date”).