[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) › c10.60 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.60 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.60 - **Language:** English ### [c10.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.60) \*\*ADAM'S APPLE.\*\* This name (\*Pomo d'Adamo\*) is given at Goa to the fruit of the \*Mimusops Elengi\*, Linn. (\*Bird-wood\*); and in the 1635 ed. of Gerarde's Herball it is applied to the Plantain. But in earlier days it was applied to a fruit of the Citron kind.—(See Marco Polo, 2nd ed., i. 101), and the following: - [Previous: c10.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.59) - [Next: c10.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.61) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.60) · Pramāṇa