nabk

plural nabks · alternative nabak · alternative nabq · alternative nubk · alternative nebeck · alternative nebbuk · alternative nebak

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.

   Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]

   1870, Christian Henry Bateman, editor, The Bible class magazine, volume 10, page 61

2. The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.