A name applied in the W. Indies to the negroes from Benin. ? Hence attrib. Eboe-tree (Dipteryx eboensis), a tree of Central America, yielding Eboe oil, a name also given to the oil of a different tree; see quot.
1834. M. Lewis, Jrnl. W. Ind., 126. Immediately after the christening the Eboe drums were produced. Ibid., 190. The mortification of the Eboes.
1866. Treas. Bot., 476. Aleurites triloba [candleberry-tree] yields eboe oil.
