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Definition of Rambutan
1. Noun. Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit.
Terms within: Rambotan
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
Group relationships: Genus Nephelium, Nephelium
2. Noun. Pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines.
Generic synonyms: Edible Fruit
Group relationships: Nephelium Lappaceum, Rambotan, Rambutan Tree
Definition of Rambutan
1. n. A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.
Definition of Rambutan
1. Noun. A tree, ''Nephelium lappaceum'', of Southeast Asia. ¹
2. Noun. The fruit of this tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rambutan
1. the edible fruit of a Malayan tree [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rambutan
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rambutan
Literary usage of Rambutan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"rambutan tallow, from the seed of Nephelium lappaceum, Linn., ... rambutan tallow
contains, besides a little oleic acid, almost pure arachidic acid. ..."
2. Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut by Wilson Popenoe (1920)
"... American-grown longan that it is insipid and somewhat mawkish, although Barnhart
considers it excellent. THE rambutan (Plate XX) (Nephelium lappaceum, ..."
3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"Genus NEPHELIUM NEPHELIUM LAPPACEUM L. USAU OR rambutan. rambutan TALLOW A
description, figure, and the local names of this species are given in the ..."
4. The gardens of the sun: or, A naturalist's journal on the mountains and in by Frederick William Burbidge (1880)
"... of fruits—The Mangosteen—" Prada Prada "—Mango— The rambutan or " hairy
fruit"—Bread fruit—Jack fruit, ..."
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