se|bes|ten

se|bes|ten
se|bes|ten or se|bes|tan «sih BEHS tuhn», noun.
1. a plumlike fruit borne by an East Indian tree of the borage family, used in the East, and formerly in Europe, for medicinal purposes.
2. the tree it grows on.
3. the fruit of a related species or the tree it grows on.
[< Arabic sabastān < Persian sapistān]

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