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
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
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
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
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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