Forms: 6 emblico, 7 emblick. [ad. med.L. emblica, -icus, ad. Ar. amlaj a. Pers. āmleh, cf. Skr. āmalaka of same meaning.] The fruit of Emblica officinalis, a tree of the N.O. Euphorbiaceæ, whose flowers are aperient, leaves and bark a remedy against dysentery. Also Emblic myrobalan.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind., iii. IV. (Arb.), 151. Mirobalanes … which the phisitians caule Emblicos and Chebulos.
1678. Salmon, Lond. Disp., 136/2. The five sorts of Myrobolans … the Emblick purge Flegm and Water.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, II. xiv. A Boxfull of conserves, of round Myrabolan plums, called Emblicks.
1811. Hooper, Med. Dict., The emblic Myrobalan is of a dark blackish grey colour.
