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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυροβάλανος (murobálanos).
Pronunciation
Noun
myrobalanum n (genitive myrobalanī); second declension
- myrobalan fruit
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 23.98:
- Palma quae fert myrobalanum probatissima in Aegypto. Ossa non habet reliquarum modo in balanis, alvum et menses sistit in vino austero et vulnera conglutinat.
- 1938 translation by W.H.S. Jones
- The palm which bears the myrobalanum, found in Egypt, is very highly esteemed. It has no stone in its dates, as other date-palms have. Taken in a dry wine it checks diarrhoea and excessive menstruation, and unites wounds.
- myrobalan tree
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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