gingelly

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noun

The sesame plant.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noungingelly (countable and uncountable, plural gingellies)

plural gingellies

  1. IndiacountableuncountableThe sesame plant.

    The surfactant showed comparatively high emulsification index over Gingelly oil at the rate of 71%.

    2012, CR Suresh Chander, T Lohitnathm DJ Mukesh Kumar, PT Kalaichelvan, “Production and characterization of biosurfactant from Bacillus subtilis MTCC441 and its evaluation to use as bioemulsifier for food bio-preservative”, in Advances in Applied Science Research, volume 3, number 3
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    An experiment was carried out to study the effect of paper mill effluent on germination and growth behaviour of crops like maize, groundnut, sunflower, soyabean, black gram, green gram, gingelly [sesame] and castor beans in Tamil Nadu, India [date not given].

    2000, P Dhevagi, G Oblisami, “Effect of paper mill effluent on germination of agricultural crops.”, in Journal of Ecobiology, volume 12, number 4

    Cultural conditions for the production of lipase by Aspergillus niger strain MTCC 2594 by solid-state fermentation using gingelly oil cake were standardized.

    1998 June, NR Kamini, JGS Mala, R Puvanakrishnan, “Lipase production from Aspergillus niger by solid-state fermentation using gingelly oil cake”, in Process Biochemistry, volume 33, number 5

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Origin

  1. Arabicجِلْجِلَان
  2. Marathi[Term?]
  3. Hindi[Term?]
  4. Englishgingelly

From Hindi [Term?] or Marathi [Term?], ultimately from Arabic جِلْجِلَان (jiljilān).

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