rambutan

plural rambutans · alternative obsolete ramboostan · alternative obsolete rambootan · alternative obsolete rambostan · alternative obsolete rambotan · alternative obsolete ramboteen · alternative obsolete ramboutan · alternative obsolete rambustan · alternative obsolete rambustine · alternative obsolete rampostan

1. A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
2. The edible fruit of this tree.First known use 1707

   Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.

   1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115

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   The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116