margosa
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of margosa
1805–15; aphetic < Portuguese amargosa, feminine of amargoso bitter
Example Sentences
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The neem-tree is better known, perhaps, as the margosa.
From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer
She was helping me with a Bengali primer, what time I could spare my gaze from the near-by parrots eating ripe margosa fruit.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa
It is noted by Bishop Whitehead24 that it was formerly the custom for women to come to the shrine of Durgamma at Bellary clad in twigs of the margosa tree.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar
Oh! children, I have come down on my car, which is decorated with mango flowers, margosa, and jasmine.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar
There is a widespread belief that gul bēl growing on a margosa tree is more efficacious as a medicine than that which is found on other kinds of trees.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar
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