Averrhoa (h silent)

[Named from Averrhoes or Averroes, the Arabian philosopher and physician.] [AVERROIST.] A genus of plants belonging to the order Oxalidacea (Oxalids). The A. carambola, called Kurmul, and the A. bilimbi, the Anvulla or Bilimbi, are trees cultivated in Indian gardens. They have compound sensitive leaves, and intensely acid fruit, which sometimes grows on the trunk itself below the leaves. It is a five celled pome. The juice of A. bilimbi is made into syrup, and the flowers, conserved, are given in fevers and bilious diseases. The fruit of A. carambola is eaten, and is also used in dyeing. a-ver'-ring, pr. par. [AVER, v.] Av-er-rō'-ist, s. [Named after Averroes or Averrhoes (in Arabic Ebn Roshed ), an Arabian philosopher and physician, born at Cordova, in A.D. 1149, and died, by one account, in 1198; by another, in 1206. His best known work is his Commentaries on Aristotle.] Hist. and Philosophy : One of a sect deriving their name from Averroes. They held that all men have one common soul-a doctrine akin to Pantheism. They flourished in the fifteenth century, and were a branch of the Aristo tel i ans. (Mosheim: Church Hist.) tăv-er-rŭn'-cāte, v.t. [In O. Fr. averron- quer; from Lat. averrunco = to avert.] 1. To turn away to avert. "Sure some mischief will come of it, Unle , by providential wit, Or force we averruncate it." 2. To root up. Butler: Hudibras , pt. 1, c. 1,