argan oil
- a yellow nutty-flavoured oil extracted from the ripe green olive-like fruits of the argan tree, Argania spinosa of SW Morocco, and used in cooking, medicines, and cosmetics
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C21: probably from Argana, a village northeast of Agadir, Morocco, where it is believed to have originated
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