‖ chebule
(kəˈbuːl)
Also 7 cheboule, cheb.
[a. F. chébule, It. chebuli (Pegolotti has c. 1303 chebuli mirabolani) pronounced kebūli; according to Thevenot, c 1665, ad. Urd{uacu} Kābulī (‘les Orientaux les appellent Cabuly’) of Cabul, it being imported thence into India. (Yule.) Florio 1598 has chebuli, Cotgr. 1611 chebule.]
The dried prune-like astringent fruit of Terminalia Chebula, a tree of Central Asia, etc., imported commercially under the name of myrobalan. Also attrib.
| [1555 Eden Decades W. Ind. iii. iv. (Arb.) 151 Mirobalanes..which the phisitians caule Emblicos and Chebulos.] 1599 Chapman Hum. Day's Mirth Wks. 1873 I. 60 If there be any cheboules in your napkins. 1683 Salmon Doron Med. ii. 530 Take bark of the yellow Myrobalans and of Chebs. 1860 Mayne Exp. Lex. 742/2 The chebule myrobalan. |
Hence cheˈbulic a., of the nature of a chebule.
| 1727–52 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Myrobalan, The third, chebulic myrobalans, the size of a date, of a yellowish brown, pointed at the end. 1866 Treas. Bot. 1132/1 The principal kinds of Myrobalan are the Chebulic..and the Belleric. |