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A large tree of genus Melia found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated

Additional info about word: MARGOSA

A large tree of genus Melia found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic. The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the attacks of flies. Sir S. Baker.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• CULTIVATABLE
  Cultivable.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• TONICAL
  Tonic. Sir T. Browne.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• MELIACEOUS
  Pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany and the Spanish cedar.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• BITTERSWEET
  Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• CROTONIC
  Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil. Crotonic acid , a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PLATONICALLY
  In a Platonic manner.
• CIMELIARCH
  A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. Bailey.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• UNTRUNKED
  Separated from its trunk or stock.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.