Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rose-apple tree, Eugenia Jambos.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of jambul.
Examples
“The guava (Psidium pomiferum) called jambu biji, and also jambu protukal”
“In smell and even in taste it partakes much of the flavour of the rose; but this quality belongs more especially to another species, called jambu ayer mawar, or the rose-water jambu.”
“The cashew-apple and nut, called jambu muniet, or monkey-jambu”
“In Jakarta we've heard these pink guava called jambu biji”
“Another typical food we tried is tacaca, which consists of a bowl of soup with a plants (called jambu) inside it, and some gloopy stuff and some prawns, unfortuantely it tasted terrible, the jambu leaves have a mild anaesthetic effect on your mouth, like Sichuan peppercorns!”
“(biji = seeds, to distinguish them from rose apples, I suppose, which are also called jambu) and jambu merah (merah = red).”
“We'll survive peak oil heaps easier and we can live off ice cream bean pictured above and wax jambu.”
“Sultan eats, papayas, and clusters of a species of jambu, a pear-shaped fruit, beautiful to look at, each fruit looking as if made of some transparent, polished white wax with a pink flush on one side.”
“Buddha, in the form of the genius of the jambu-tree, comments thus on their conversation: --”
“The jambu tree, the Buddhist god-tree, is in the shape of a cross. 9”
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