Also 7 cheboule, cheb. [a. F. chébule, It. chebuli (Pegolotti has c. 1303 chebuli mirabolani) pronounced kebūli; according to Thevenot, c. 1665, ad. Urdú Kābulī (‘les Orientaux les appellent Cabuly’) of Cabul, it being imported thence into India. (Yule.) Florio 1598 has chebuli, Cotgr. 1611 chebule.]
The dried prune-like astringent fruit of Terminalia Chebula, a tree of Central Asia, etc., imported commercially under the name of myrobalan. Also attrib.
[1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind., III. IV. (Arb.), 151. Mirobalanes … which the phisitians caule Emblicos and Chebulos.]
1599. Chapman, Hum. Day’s Mirth, Wks. 1873, I. 60. If there be any cheboules in your napkins.
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., II. 530. Take bark of the yellow Myrobalans and of Chebs.
1860. Mayne, Exp. Lex., 742/2. The chebule myrobalan.
Hence Chebulic a., of the nature of a chebule.
1727–52. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Myrobalan, The third, chebulic myrobalans, the size of a date, of a yellowish brown, pointed at the end.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1132/1. The principal kinds of Myrobalan are the Chebulic … and the Belleric.
