sebesten plum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Under the name Sebesten Plums, Sebestans, or Sepistans, two sorts of Indian fruit have been employed as pectoral medicines, for which their mucilaginous qualities, combined with some astringency, have recommended them."
- "Some species are valued for their fruit, notably C. sebestena the Sebesten plum of the West Indies, C. myxa of Egypt; others for their timber, as C. gerascanthus and C. scabia, Spanish elm, princewood, &c. of the West Indies."
- "Has numerous spreading branches, and the young shoots are angular and smooth; small, round, reddish-colored, pleasant-tasted glutinous fruit, called sebesten plum."
- "In his comments on Paul's account (I, ₇) of cough affecting children, Adams remarks that the treatment recommended by al-Rāzī in chap. 18 of De morbis infantium is nearly the same as that of al-Zahrāwī,³¹ which he summarizes as involving "various demulcents", and an electuary containing poppy-seed, tragacanth, and the seeds of citrons, to be taken in a decoction of sebesten plums."