kumbukn.
/ˈkʌmbʌk//ˈkʊmbʊk/ A name used in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) for the arjun, Terminalia arjuna, an Indian evergreen tree of the family Combretaceæ.
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1869 R. H. Beddome Flora Sylvatica I. 17 It [sc. Terminalia tomentosa] is called.. Koombook in Ceylon.
1894 H. Trimen Hand-bk. Flora Ceylon II. 160 T[erminalia] glabra... Kumbuk.
1923 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 860/2 A lovely clear purling stream with the most beautiful Kumbuk trees fringing it on either side.
1971 Ceylon Observer 19 Sept. (Mag. ed.) 3/3 She had heard the beast sigh loudly behind the great big kumbuk tree.
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