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‖ nubk
[var. of nabk, nebk nebbuk.]
A spiny, evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Zizyphus, esp. Z. spina-Christi, belonging to the family Rhamnaceæ, native to north Africa and southwestern Asia and bearing edible fruit. Cf. ilb.
1873Tristram Moab xviii. 347 Under a thorny nubk-tree. 1874Farrar Christ II. lx. 381 note, The nubk..struck me..as being the most suitable for mockery and pain, since its leaves are bright and its thorns singularly strong. 1899Harper's Mag. Feb. 359 Will the nubk grow on the grounds of the Temple? 1958L. Durrell Mountolive xvi. 304 He made his way..to the great nubk tree standing up starkly in its clearing. 1960― Clea i. iii. 57 The ‘nubk’ forms the great circular palisade of trees which encircles the Moslem Paradise. |