Crossword-Solution: MARGOSA
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| Margosa | n. | A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MARGOSA (5)
MARGOSE, OR NEEM OIL.--From the pericarp or fleshy part of the fruit of the _Melia Azederachta_, the well known Margosa oil is prepared; which is cheap and easily procurable in Ceylon.
Rees in his diary of the same siege noted--"I have given up smoking tobacco, and have taken to tea-leaves and neem-leaves, and guava fruit-leaves instead, which the poor soldiers are also constantly using." The neem-tree is better known, perhaps, as the margosa.
The pill must be inserted for nine days between the bark and cambium of a margosa tree (Melia Azadirachta) during the new moon, when the sap ascends." The creeper referred to is Tinospora cordifolia (gul bel), and the roots are apparently those of the same climbing shrub.
There is a widespread belief that gul bel growing on a margosa tree is more efficacious as a medicine than that which is found on other kinds of trees.
The eggs of red ants, boiled in margosa (Melia Azadirachta) oil, are said to be an invaluable remedy for children suffering from asthma.