margosa

American  

[mahr-goh-suh] / mɑrˈgoʊ sə /

noun

1. neem.

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Etymology

Origin of margosa

1805–15; aphetic < Portuguese amargosa, feminine of amargoso bitter

Example Sentences

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

But this is now only done by children, the grown-up women putting the margosa twigs over a cloth wrapped round the loins.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar

The neem-tree is better known, perhaps, as the margosa.

From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer

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

If a vow has been made on behalf of a sick cow, the animal is bathed in the river, clad in margosa leaves, and led round the temple.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar