# imbe
## English
### Etymology

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### Noun

imbe (plural imbes)
* The originally African tree Garcinia livingstonei.
** 1928, Otis Warren Barrett, The Tropical Crops:The danealan, G. subelliptica, is a 30- to 40-foot tree of the eastern coast of Luzon. [...] The imbe has fruited in southern Florida, but probably it is too exacting in its ecological requirements for general cultivation.
** 1944, John MacLaren Waterston, Fruit Culture in Bermuda ...:Garcinia livingstonei T. Anders., The Imbe, Guttiferae. The Imbe has proved quite hardy and successful on the sandy and limestone rock soils of Southern Florida. The fruit obtained [...]
** 1960, William Crawford Kennard, H. F. Winters, Some Fruits and Nuts for the Tropics, page 67:Figure 46. - The imbe, Garcinia livingstonei.
** 1993, Tropical Fruit News, page 102:Trees grow slowly and this makes them ideal for pot culture; in fact, many people grow imbe as a container tropical fruit for small landscapes. Imbes have separate sexes, so this means you have to have both a male and a female tree ...
** 1993, James J. Darley, Know and Enjoy Tropical Fruit: Tropical Fruit and Nuts: a Cornucopia, P&S Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:Purple mangosteen trees have only female flowers and pollen fertilisation is not required. [...] Other Garcinia species, have less to recommend them as a fruit tree; the imbe (G. livingstonei) is small fruited, has a large seed and a little sour flesh.
** 2006, Susanna Lyle, Discovering Fruit & Nuts: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation, Uses and Health Benefits of Over 300 Food-Producing Plants:(Guttiferae) Relatives: mangosteen A native of eastern Africa, the imbe forms an interestingly-shaped tree and has numerous sweet-sub-acid, tasty bright orange fruits, which can be eaten fresh. It is only cultivated locally ...
** 2008, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Lost Crops of Africa: Volume III: Fruits, National Academies Press (→ISBN), page 291:
    Africa's best-known mangosteen relative is the imbe, a tree whose soft and colorful fruits brighten up markets [...]. Imbes come from a shrub or small tree with a dense spreading or conical crown topping a short, often twisted trunk [...]

#### Translations
### See also

* imbé (“the South American liana Philodendron imbe”)

### Anagrams

* mebi-

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *imbī, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *a(m)pi- (“stinging insect, bee”). Cognate with Middle Dutch imme (Dutch imme) and Old High German imbi (German Imme). The proposed Indo-European root would also be the source of Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís), Latin apis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈim.be/

### Noun

imbe n
* swarm of bees

#### Usage notes

Only attested in late form ymbe.

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈimʲbʲe/

### Noun

imbe n (genitive imbi)
* verbal noun of im·fen
* fence

#### Inflection

Neuter io-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | imbe$^N$ | imbe$^L$ | imbe$^L$ |
| Vocative | imbe$^N$ | imbe$^L$ | imbe$^L$ |
| Accusative | imbe$^N$ | imbe$^L$ | imbe$^L$ |
| Genitive | imbi$^L$ | imbe$^L$ | imbe$^N$ |
| Dative | imbiu$^L$ | imbib | imbib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imbe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language