ramtil
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Bengali.
Noun edit
ramtil (uncountable)
- A tropical African asteraceous shrub (Guizotia abyssinica) cultivated for its seeds, which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ramtil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)