Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Malabar \Mal"a*bar`\, n.
   A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India,
   between the mountains and the sea.

   {Malabar nut} (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous
      shrub, the {Adhatoda Vasica}, sometimes used medicinally.