Eboe
(ˈiːbəʊ)
A name applied in the W. Indies and U.S. to the Negroes from Benin. The same term as Ibo in West Africa, but used with wider application in the W. Indies. Hence attrib. eboe-tree (Dipteryx eboensis), a tree of Central America, yielding eboe oil, a name also given to the oil of a different tree; see quot.
| 1732, 1774 [see Ibo a.]. 1834 M. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. 126 Immediately after the christening the Eboe drums were produced. Ibid. 190 The mortification of the Eboes. 1866 Treas. Bot. 476 Aleurites triloba [candleberry-tree] yields eboe oil. |