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Definition of Bilimbi
1. Noun. East Indian evergreen tree bearing very acid fruit.
Definition of Bilimbi
1. n. The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideæ or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases.
Definition of Bilimbi
1. an East Indian tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilimbi
Literary usage of Bilimbi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"The fruit occurs in a sweet and acid variety; the former is available for the
table, raw, the other for preserves. That of A. bilimbi ..."
2. The Chinese Repository by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, S. W. Williams (1840)
"The fruit of the bilimbi has a smart acid, and is used among other acid fruits
in the ... In the Averrhoa carambola and bilimbi this beautiful arillus, ..."
3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1849)
"The bilimbi is used exactly in the same manner, and for the same purposes as ...
The bilimbi was introduced from India in 1791 ; and in its native country ..."
4. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"A. bilimbi. L. sp. 613 ; a Willd. ii. 749. ... AVERRHOA bilimbi. Bryant 275.
Lour. i. 355. Billing-bing. Boni. 133. Blimbing. Cook in Hawk. ir. 350. 2. ..."
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