cerbasn.
Obsolete.
A supposed tree of vast circumference, formerly rumoured to grow in the West Indies.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 291 Yet enuying all the massie Cerbas fame, Sith fiftie paces can but clasp the same.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Cerbas, an Indean tree fifteene fathom about.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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