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noun
any of several astringent substances obtained from various tropical plants, especially from the wood of two East Indian acacias, Acacia catechu and A. suma: used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.
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Catechu
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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World English Dictionary
| catechu, cachou or cutch (ˈkætɪˌtʃuː) | |
| —n | |
| See also gambier a water-soluble astringent resinous substance obtained from any of certain tropical plants, esp the leguminous tree Acacia catechu of S Asia, and used in medicine, tanning, and dyeing | |
| [C17: probably from Malay kachu, of Dravidian origin] | |
| cachou, cachou or cutch | |
| —n | |
| [C17: probably from Malay kachu, of Dravidian origin] | |
| cutch, cachou or cutch | |
| —n | |
| [C17: probably from Malay kachu, of Dravidian origin] | |
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