< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BLIMBING, the Indian name of the fruit of averrhoa bilimbi, a small tree, family oxalidaceæ, called also cucumber tree, the fruit being acid and resembling a small cucumber. The carambola belongs to the same genus.
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