Malabar nut

English

Noun

Malabar nut (plural Malabar nuts)

1. The seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, Justicia adhatoda, sometimes used medicinally.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Malabar nut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)