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margosa

[ mahr-goh-suh ]

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Word History and Origins

Origin of margosa1

1805–15; aphetic < Portuguese amargosa, feminine of amargoso bitter

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Example Sentences

She was helping me with a Bengali primer, what time I could spare my gaze from the near-by parrots eating ripe margosa fruit.

Several groves of margosa trees are said to flourish in her vicinity.

On the following day, all the old pots are thrown away, and the agnates eat rice cooked with margosa (Melia Azadirachta) leaves.

A meal, called pithapona (bitter food), consisting of rice and margosa (Melia Azadirachta) leaves, is partaken of by agnates only.

Children who suffer from fits are branded with a twig of margosa or with a glass bangle.

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