poonga oil

English

Etymology

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Noun

poonga oil (uncountable)

1. A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammara for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Millettia pinnata).

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “poonga oil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)