blimbing

English

Etymology

From Malay belimbing (“star fruit”).

Noun

blimbing (plural blimbings)

  1. Archaic form of bilimbi.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116:
      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.

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