Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tropical African and South Asian tree (Acacia nilotica) of the pea family that yields a gum similar to gum arabic and whose bark is used in tanning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bablah .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any one of several species of Acacia, esp.
Acacia Arabica , which yelds a gum used as a substitute for true gum arabic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tree native toSouth Asia , Acacia nilotica subsp.indica .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To the moron that put a bad taste in my mouth with her psycho babul redric your comments are neither wanted or needed here especially under this particular post.
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To the moron that put a bad taste in my mouth with her psycho babul redric your comments are neither wanted or needed here especially under this particular post.
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Forests, mostly in the north-east of the park, are dominated by kalam or kadam Mitragyna parvifolia, jamun Syzygium cuminii and babul Acacia nilotica.
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The open woodland is mostly babul with a small amount of kandi Prosopis spicigera and ber Zizyphus mauritiana.
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Of the common trees of the plains of India -- the _nim_, mango, babul, tamarind, shesham, palm, and plantain -- not one is to be found growing on the hills.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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United Provinces seem to be babul trees that grow near borrow pits alongside the railroad.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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And it is a joy beyond words when I have dyed my nails the right colour, and donned my brightest garments, and painted the shadows 'neath my eyes – to the intent that she may glare with envy – Gunga of the unlucky foot, whose heart is burnt as dry as babul firewood.
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Two thorn bushes grew on either side of the door, like babul bushes, covered with a golden coloured bloom, and the roof was all of thatch.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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As the thriftless gold of the babul, so is the gold that we spend
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Thorny _babul_ thrust their spiked branches out over the roadway, white with tufts of cotton torn by its thorns from bales, loose pressed, on their way to market in buffalo carts; "Babul the thief," the natives called this acacia.
Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896
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