gingelly
English edit
Etymology edit
From Hindi [Term?] or Marathi [Term?], ultimately from Arabic جُلْجُلَان (juljulān).
Noun edit
gingelly (countable and uncountable, plural gingellies)
- (India) The sesame plant.
- 2000, P Dhevagi, G Oblisami, “Effect of paper mill effluent on germination of agricultural crops.”, in Journal of Ecobiology, volume 12, number 4:
- An experiment was carried out to study the effect of paper mill effluent on germination and growth behaviour of crops like maize, groundnut, sunflower, soyabean, black gram, green gram, gingelly [sesame] and castor beans in Tamil Nadu, India [date not given].
- 2012, CR Suresh Chander, T Lohitnathm DJ Mukesh Kumar, PT Kalaichelvan, “Production and characterization of biosurfactant from Bacillus subtilis MTCC441 and its evaluation to use as bioemulsifier for food bio-preservative”, in Advances in Applied Science Research, volume 3, number 3:
- The surfactant showed comparatively high emulsification index over Gingelly oil at the rate of 71%.
- 1998 June, NR Kamini, JGS Mala, R Puvanakrishnan, “Lipase production from Aspergillus niger by solid-state fermentation using gingelly oil cake”, in Process Biochemistry, volume 33, number 5:
- Cultural conditions for the production of lipase by Aspergillus niger strain MTCC 2594 by solid-state fermentation using gingelly oil cake were standardized.