yauki (Kontagora), ?Crotalaria polychotoma, Taub. (Leguminosæ). A low pubescent herb with small yellow flowers; used medicinally. vide [sa furfura].
yawa, fibre from various sources. 1. Chiefly that from a var. of the cultivated bean, Vigna sinensis, Endl. grown for the strong fibrous bark of the flowering peduncles, used for fishing lines, nets, horse-girths, &c. Syn. waken tumḳa (Sok.), waken tuḳa (Gobir), waken tuka (Kano). 2. the root-bark of the acacia [ḍakwora], q.v. (Acacia Senegal), and other species of acacia, e.g. [ḍunḍu] and [twatsa], q.v. used for strong ropes, &c. cf. [meḍi]. 3. Applied also to the fibre of Polygala butyracea, Hack. (cheyi of Kabba, enyigi of Nupé), grown by pagans in the south, Munchi, Togo, &c.
yaya kai ka fito, vide [ḳaḳa kai ka fito].
yayan dara, seeds of various trees used in the game dara, and hence applied to a leguminous tree in the south, with prickly pods containing two large round seeds—Cæsalpinia Bonducella, Fleming.
yazawa or zazawa, an undershrub, wild or planted in compounds; the root is an acrid poison and is used for making tribal marks, and as an ingredient in some recipes for arrow-poison.
yoḍo, vide [yauḍo].
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zabgai, arrow-poison; syn. yaḅi; vide [kwankwani].
zabibi, a plant with a tuberous rhizome yielding a yellow dye. Curcuma sp. (Scitamineæ). cf. [gangamau].
zabiya, a variety of date; vide under [dabino].