mohwa

[moh-wuh]

noun

1. mahua.

Example Sentences

Mohwa Mimusops littoralis   Bombway Careya arborea Probably useful for paving-blocks.

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In the hope of inducing him to eat, they gave him some mohwa wrapped in a sal leaf.

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So he opened his small parcel of mohwa, and the dry leaf crackled as he did so.

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Light in the East, the dawn wind singing, Solemn and grey and chill, Rose in the sky, with Orion swinging Down to the distant hill; The grass dew-pearled and the mohwa shaking Her scented petals across the track, And the herd astir to the new day breaking— Gods! how it all comes back.

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The seeds of the mohwa yield an oil much prized by the natives, and used occasionally for adulterating ghee.

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