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‖ argan Bot.
[a. Arab. arjān, in Barbary pronounced argān.]
An evergreen tree (family Sapotaceæ), found in Morocco, furnishing a very hard, heavy wood, and an oil from its seeds.
1809J. Jackson Morocco 123 The argan tree is the favourite resort of this bird. 1875Ure Dict. Arts, Argan-oil, expressed from the kernels of the Argania Sideroxylon. |