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elcaja

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
el-ca-ja
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Trichilia emetica, an Arabian tree whose fruit is an emetic.

Obsolete

Etymology

From its taxonomic name Elcaja roka by Peter Forsskål, modelled after its Arabic names جَوْز القَيْء (jawz al-qayʔ) and رُقَع (ruqaʕ).

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Questions

What does elcaja mean?
Trichilia emetica, an Arabian tree whose fruit is an emetic.
Where does elcaja come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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