arjunn.
/ˈɑːdʒʌn//ˈɑːdʒuːn/ Botany.
An evergreen tree of southern India and Sri Lanka, Terminalia arjuna (family Combretaceae); = kumbuk n.
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1862 E. Balfour Timber Trees India (ed. 2) 249/1 In Nagpore, the timber of Arjoon is of a deeper red than Bejasar.
1880 V. Ball Jungle Life in India viii. 312 Another insect..forms..a white wax, which is found in small masses on the twigs and branches of several trees, more particularly on the arjun.
1955 Nomencl. Commercial Timbers (B.S.I.) 84 Terminalia arjuna Bedd.... arjun (India).
1992 N. Bhattacharya Hem & Football i. 3 Shibu, the smart, trousers-and-T-shirt-clad young barber..had recently set up his shop under an arjun tree in the bazaar outside the colony.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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