mahua

plural mahuas · alternative mahwa · alternative mowra · alternative mohwa · alternative mowrah · alternative mhowa · alternative mowa · alternative mowah · alternative moh tree

1. Madhuca longifolia, a fast-growing Indian tropical tree cultivated for its oleaginous seeds.

   When the Mannewars, another forest tribe of the Central Provinces, pick the flowers of the mahua tree (Bassia latifolia), they worship the tree and offer it some of the liquor distilled from the new flowers, along with a fowl and a goat.

   1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 119

   Synonyms: iluppai, mowra butter tree