Definition of Averrhoa bilimbi

1. Noun. East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit.

Exact synonyms: Bilimbi
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Averrhoa Bilimbi

Avellis
Avellis' syndrome
Avena barbata
Avena fatua
Avena sativa
Avene sterilis
Aventine
Aventines
Averell Harriman
Averil
Avernal
Averni
Avernian
Avernus
Averrhoa
Averrhoa bilimbi (current term)
Averrhoa carambola
Averroes
Averroism
Averroisms
Averroist
Averroists
Avery
Avesta
Avestan
Aveyron
Avi
Avicenna
Avicennia
Avicennia marina

Literary usage of Averrhoa bilimbi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chinese Repository by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, S. W. Williams (1840)
"The Bilimbi (averrhoa bilimbi,) is common in the Archipelago, but in no place did it look more happy than it did at Macassar. ..."

2. Practical Physiology of Plants by Francis Darwin, Edward Hamilton Acton (1909)
"... Averrhoa bilimbi. The leaves of many plants assume in bright sunshine a more or less vertical position, which has been sometimes called "diurnal sleep" ..."

3. Researches on Irritability of Plants by Jagadis Chandra Bose (1913)
"LEAFLETS OF Averrhoa bilimbi The excitability of these leaflets is perhaps ... TABLE X.—EFFECT OF FEEBLE CURRENT ON LEAFLETS OF Averrhoa bilimbi EMF = io ..."

4. The Power of movement in plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1895)
"A similar movement may fre- uently be observed with the leaflets of Averrhoa bilimbi (a member of the ..."

5. The Weekly Visitor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1835)
"These are the averrhoa bilimbi, and the averrhoa carambola. The averrhoa bilimbi rises to the height of about eight feet, with a few reclining branches ..."

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