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Definition of Jambu
1. the rose-apple tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jambu
Literary usage of Jambu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"So jambu-muH went to his own chamber, and put on a red cloth, and over it a coat
of mail; and he put a helmet upon his head, a string of pearls upon his ..."
2. Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants in All Ages and in by Charles Montgomery Skinner (1911)
"jambu, OR SOMA A huge tree bearing a great fruit, known to the Hindus as the
jambu but to botanists as eugenia jambos, is the "fruit of kings" that gave its ..."
3. A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy by John Garrett (1871)
"jambu—The name of the rose-apple tree ou Mount Gandha- madana, the southern buttress
... From the jambu- tree the insular continent, jambu-dwipa derives its ..."
4. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"jambu. A generic Malay name for several kinds of fruit of different botanic
genera, but which is probably borrowed from the jambu-kling, the Eugenia Malac- ..."
5. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"During the same expedition, at a later date, I picked up on the river bank near
jambu in Jering (one of the seven modern subdivisions of Patani) a large ..."
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