Crossword clues for bito
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bito \Bi"to\, n., Bito tree \Bi"to tree`\ . [Etym. uncertain.] (Bot.) A small scrubby tree ( Balanites [AE]gyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.
Note: The hard yellowish white wood is made into plows in Abyssinia; the bark is used in Farther India to stupefy fish; the ripe fruit is edible, when green it is an anthelmintic; the fermented juice is used as a beverage; the seeds yield a medicinal oil called zachun. The African name of the tree is hajilij.
Usage examples of "bito".
The letter from Hideyoshi delivered to him by Bito Jinemon had particularly warned against being drawn into a challenge from Ieyasu, but it id come too late.
For even if, among fallible mortals, there may frequently be ground for the hesitation of just men to award the punishment of death to their enemies, the most beautiful story, to my present knowledge, of all antiquity, that of Cleobis and Bito, might suggest to them the fitness on some occasions, of distributing without any hesitation the reward of death to their friends.
Vuk verovao da mora negde biti neka dobra i krasna zemlja, kuda svi treba da se isele.
The rest of Africa, tike South America, was largely noncommunicating, from which Biti assumed that those areas had been pretty well depopulated by the time storm also.