myrobalanum

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

myrŏbălănum, i, n., = μυροβάλανον,

the fruit of a palm-tree from which a balsam was made, the behen-nut; also, the balsam itself , Plin. 12, 21, 46, § 100; 12, 22, 47, § 103; Mart. 4, 57 in lemm .