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‖ jambo, jambu E. Ind.|ˈdʒæmbəʊ, -buː|
Also jamboo, jambos, jumboo.
[Various vernacular forms repr. Skr. jambu, jambū ‘rose-apple’, and its derivatives jambula, jambūla, etc.]
A name given in different parts of the East Indies and Malay Archipelago to several species of Eugenia (family Myrtaceæ), and their fruits; esp.a. Eugenia Jambos (Jambosa vulgaris), the Rose Apple.
1598tr. Linschoten's Voy. i. (Hakluyt Soc.) II. 29, 30 (Stanf.) Of Iambos. In India ther is another fruit that for the beautie, pleasant taste, smell, and medicinable vertue thereof, is worthie to bee written of... The Iambos tree taketh deepe roote. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 505 The Iambos..smelleth like a Rose, is ruddie; and the tree is never without fruit or blossomes. 1775Masson in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 270 No Indian fruits, except the guyava and jambo. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1319 Jambo, Rose apple (Eugenia jambos).
b. Eugenia Jambolana, the Java Plum, also called jambolan and jaman.
1835A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara (ed. 2) II. 36 They consisted of the peach,..mango, jamboo, bair, date,..and apple. 1866Livingstone Jrnl. (1873) I. vii. 172 We got some wretched wild fruit like that called ‘jambos’, in India. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia vi. (1881) 143 The books Tell how jambu⁓branches, planted thus Shoot with quick life in wealth of leaf and flower.
c. Eugenia malaccensis, the Malay Apple, and kindred species, native to the Malay archipelago.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxi. 255 Their Jambo Malacca is very beautiful and pleasant. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 280 The jamboo is a fruit that has but little taste, but is of a cooling nature: it is considerably less than a common-sized apple,..its shape is oval, and its colour a deep red. 1789G. Keate Pelew Isl. 257 note, It is the Jamboo Apple, the Eugenia Malaccensis of Linnæus. 1812M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. Ind. 22 (Y.) The jumboo, a species of rose-apple, with its flowers like crimson tassels covering every part of the stem. 1883I. L. Bishop Sk. Malay Pen. v. in Leisure Ho. 198/2 Clusters of a species of jambu, a pear-shaped fruit.
So ‖ jambol, jambul [Skr. jambula, jambūla: see jambo]; also jambolan = jambo b.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 505 But of these, also the Carambolas, Iambolijns and other Indian fruits, I leave to speake. 1866Treas. Bot. 634/2 Jambolan-tree, Calyptrantes Jambolana. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 382 By the roadside..there were roses, daturas, and jambol⁓trees (Eugenia Jambolanum) with heads of graceful flowers. 1887Syd. Soc. Lex., Jambul, the Syzygium jambolanum. |