English Explanatory Dictionary

lebbek

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tree Albizia lebbeck.

Word forms

lebbek lebbeks

Etymology

Forsskål’s 1775 Flora Ægyptiaco-Arabica recorded the Arabic لَبَخ (labaḵ) as læbach, leæba (page 172), lebbek (page LI, LXXVII), which Willdenow’s 1797 edition of Linnæi Species plantarum made translingual as Acacia lebbeck.

Synonyms

koko East Indian walnut woman's tongue tree
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