mombin batard

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Noun

mombin batard (plural mombin batards)

  1. A deciduous shrub growing on Haiti of species Trichilia hirta (red cedar).
    • 1966, Francis Huxley, The invisibles: Voodoo gods in Haiti, page 56:
      Seven leaves of mombin bâtard and seven leaves of loupgarou must be picked with the same invocation.
    • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 78:
      Oris was stretched out in the shade of a mombin batard tree, resting on one elbow and gnawing on a stick of sugarcane.
    • 2008, Rene Philoctete, Massacre River, page 231:
      Mombin (Spondias Mombin) is a kind of plum much prized in Haiti, and the mombin-batard (Trichilia Hirta) is the wild variety, a common Haitian tree whose leaves are believed to drive away evil spirits through purifying powers related to the plant's supposed African origin.

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