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- AUBERGINEAn Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
- DERVISHAn itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals.
- GHEEA type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking.
- GUARAn annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.
- IXORAAny of the flowering plants in the genus Ixora.
- LACQUERA glossy, resinous material used as a surface coating; either a natural exudation of certain trees, or a solution of nitrocellulose in alcohol, etc.
- MUNGmung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.
- OPALA mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O. A precious gem, an iridescent gemstone fou
- ROTIA kind of unleavened flatbread commonly consumed in South Asia and the Caribbean.