E. Ind. Also jamun, -oon. [Hindī jāmun, jāman.] The fruit of Eugenia Jambolana; = JAMBOLAN. (Sometimes confounded with the Rose-apple or JAMBO, Eugenia Jambos.)
1826. Leyden & Erskine, trans. Mem. Baber, 325 (Y.). Another is the jaman…. Its fruit resembles the black grape, but has a more acid taste, and is not very good. Ibid., note (Y.). The jâman has no resemblance to the rose-apple; it is more like an oblong sloe than anything else.
1838. Penny Cycl., X. 65/2. The Clove tree, the Rose apple, and Jamoon of India, formerly included in Eugenia. Ibid. (1842), XXIII. 483/1. S[yzygium] Jambolanum … planted near villages … chiefly on account of its fruit, which is sometimes called Java plum by Europeans, but Jamoon by the natives.
