neem
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Borrowed from Hindi नीम (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).
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neem (plural neems)
- Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
- 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 108:
- He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.
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- (Azadirachta indica): margosa, peelu, chinaberry, white cedar, Persian lilac, syringa berry, bead tree, azedarach
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Azadirachta indica
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neem
- inflection of nemen:
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From Proto-Finnic *neemi.
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neem (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
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