Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15820

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**WOOD-APPLE**, s. [According to the *Madras Gloss.* also known as *Curd Fruit, Monkey Fruit,* and *Elephant Apple*, because it is like an elephant’s skin.] A wild fruit of the N.O. *Aurantiaceae* growing in all the drier parts of India (*Feronia elephantum, Correa*). It is somewhat like the *bel* (see BAEL) but with a still harder shell, and possesses some of its medicinal virtue. In the native pharmacopœia it is sometimes substituted (*Moodeen Sherif, [Watt, Econ. Dict. iii. 324 seqq.*). Buchanan-Hamilton calls it the *Kot-bel* (Kathbel), (Eastern India, ii. 787).]