[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.15820 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15820 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15820 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15820](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15820) \*\*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, \[Watt, Econ. Dict. iii. 324 seqq.\*). Buchanan-Hamilton calls it the \*Kot-bel\* (Kathbel), (Eastern India, ii. 787).\] - [Previous: c10.15819](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15819) - [Next: c10.15821](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15821) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15820](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15820) · Pramāṇa