Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Hydnocarpus, whose seeds contain an oil formerly used to treat skin lesions caused by leprosy and other diseases.
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- noun A tree found in Southeast Asia, Hydnocarpus wightiana, which yields an oil (chaulmoogra oil) which was formerly used as a treatment for leprosy.
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- noun East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Bengali cāulmugrā.]
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Examples
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Instead of giving raw chaulmoogra oil in doses, as had been the custom for centuries, he gave it by injection to the muscles.
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The following extract from _Current History_, Vol. XV, pages 771-772, sets forth the participation of Alice Ball, a scholarly Negro chemist, in the treatment of leprosy through the use of chaulmoogra oil extracted by a difficult scientific process.
vanishedone commented on the word chaulmoogra
Am I misreading it, or is this WeirdNet definition not even grammatical?
February 19, 2009
bilby commented on the word chaulmoogra
Relative pronoun missing between seeds and yield.
February 19, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word chaulmoogra
Or "yield" could go buy itself an S at the corner market.
February 19, 2009
reesetee commented on the word chaulmoogra
I think WeirdNet confuses itself with a newspaper headline at times.
February 20, 2009