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A tree growing in the Muhammadan hell, from which a food is prepared for the damned of inexpressible bitterness.
“How will it be for him whose food is Zakkum?”—The Koran.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.