mahua
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See also: máhuā
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi महुआ (mahuā).
Noun
mahua (plural mahuas)
- Madhuca longifolia, a fast-growing Indian tropical tree cultivated for its oleaginous seeds.
- Synonyms: iluppai, mowra butter tree
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 119:
- When the Mannewars, another forest tribe of the Central Provinces, pick the flowers of the mahua tree (Bassia latifolia), they worship the tree and offer it some of the liquor distilled from the new flowers, along with a fowl and a goat.
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Translations
Madhuca longifolia
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