otenga

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noun

A flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.

Originas ঔটেঙা →
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Meanings

noun
  1. A flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.

    One is Chelta (Dillenia indica), the common Assamese "Otenga", and the other Ping (Cynometra polyandra). Both these trees have hard, heavy woods […].

    1917, Quarterly Journal of the India Tea Association, Part I, p. 11
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    It is prepared by pounding the root to powder, and mixing it up with the juice of the Otenga tree, to give it tenacity, and make it adhere to the arrow head.

    1836, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 5, page 196

    He kept all the things near the hearth where he had already put some greens, two sour otenga fruits and a bunch of tender curry leaves, along with some dry fire wood.

    2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee

Origin

  1. asঔটেঙা
  2. Englishotenga

Borrowed from Assamese ঔটেঙা (outeṅa).

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