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Nabk


Nabk

(năbk)
,
Noun.
[Ar.
nabiqa
,
nibqa
.]
(Bot.)
The edible berries of the
Zizyphys Lotus
, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe.
[Written also
nubk
.]
See
Lotus
(b)
, and
Sadr
.

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nabk

nabk

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nabk (plural nabks)

  1. Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
  2. The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.

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