Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tree of the genus Cordia; also, its plum-like fruit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

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  • noun botany The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia myxa and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
  • noun botany, West Indies The similar fruit of Cordia sebestana.

Etymologies

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Arabic word for the tree.

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