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Named in the 19th century for one of the places where it was prevalent, Madurai, which at the time was called Madura by the British colonialists.
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Named in the 19th century for one of the places where it was prevalent, Madurai, which at the time was called Madura by the British colonialists.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.