margosa

[ mahr-goh-suh ]

noun

1. neem ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of margosa¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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She was helping me with a Bengali primer, what time I could spare my gaze from the near-by parrots eating ripe margosa fruit.

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The devotees are bound to wear a garment made of fresh margosa twigs with their leaves.

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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.

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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.

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