Lexicographical Neighbors of Blimbing
Literary usage of Blimbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flag-ship: Or, A Voyage Around the World in the United States Frigate by Fitch Waterman Taylor (1840)
"The blimbing (averrhoa carambola) is a peculiar acid pentagonal fruit. Its seeds
are flat It reminds you of a craw-fish, although nothing like it; ..."
2. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"... of this fruit tree cultivated in the Archipelago ; the blimbing-basi, ...
from the rusty colour of its coat, and the blimbing-manis or sweet blimbing. ..."
3. A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to by William Fordyce MAVOR (1809)
"The blimbing, or averrhoa ... the blimbing besse, or averrhoa car am bold; ...
The blimbing besse is the sweetest: the other two are so austerely arid, ..."
4. The India directory, for the guidance of commanders of steamers and sailing by Alfred Dundas Taylor, James Horsburgh (1874)
"blimbing Bay, on the opposite side, a little to the N. of Flat Point, also affords
good anchorage ... The small River blimbing is on the E. side of the Bay, ..."
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