malabar nut

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malabar nut - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Malabar \Mal"a*bar`\, n.
     A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India,
     between the mountains and the sea.
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     Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous
        shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.
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