ḳuruḳuru (Sok. Kats. Katagum, &c.), Feretia canthioides, Hiern. (Rubiaceæ); a shrub with fragrant jasmine-like white flowers. Syn. lallen suri or lallen jibba (from its common habitat near ant-hills); goge (?Hausa); vide [rigyakafi].

ḳurzun ḍinya, vide under [ḍinya].

kurzunu, a tubercled variety of an edible gourd like a cucumber; (?a var. of the bottle-gourd Lagenaria vulgaris, vide under [duma]).

kusumburuwa, vide under [dawa].

kututu, vide under [masara].

kwachiya, a small calabash; vide under [duma].

kwagiri, a woody creeper, a sort of jointed cane used for walking sticks, &c.

kwaikwaiyo, vide under [kuka] and [aduwa].

kwakwa, Elais guineensis, Jacq. (Palmeæ). Oil Palm. man ja = palm oil derived from the outer fleshy pulp of the nut; the kernel yields a different oil.

kwakwar Attagara, Cocos nucifera, Linn. Coco-nut Palm (from the name of an Igara town on the lower Niger).