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单词 cangica-wood
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cangica-woodn.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English angica wood.
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of or error for angica wood (1843 or earlier) < angica (apparently < Brazilian Portuguese angico angico n.) + wood n.1, perhaps influenced by (or confused with) the unrelated canjica kind of maize porridge (1824 or earlier), or its etymon Brazilian Portuguese canjica, denoting a variety of maize and a kind of porridge made from it.Compare French bois d'angik, bois d'angika (1837 or earlier), bois d'angica (1844 or earlier). Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcangica-wood.
A wood from South America, of a light yellow-brown colour, used for cabinet-work and turnery. (Weale.)
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1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) I. 574 Cangica wood..is imported from the Brazils in trimmed logs, from eight to ten inches diameter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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