Brewer's: Zakkum

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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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