[Arab. sanṭ.] A species of acacia, Acacia arabica, of northern Africa, or its wood. Also attrib.
1820. Benzoni, Egypt & Nubia, III. 304. We were seated under a dry sunt tree, at a little distance from a small well.
1883. Conder & Kitchener, Survey W. Palestine, III. 139. A man who lit a single branch of sunt (acacia), cooked his food for three successive days by it.
1884. J. Colborne, Hicks Pasha, 100. Sunt trees grow in great profusion here.
