kwantal (Sok.), or gurji kwantal; vide [gurji].
kwaranga or (kuringa), kwarangar wofi, Smilax Kraussiana, Meisn. (Liliaceæ); a prickly twiner with 5-nerved leaves and a tuberous root used medicinally; related to Sarsaparilla. (Etym. “bastard ladder”). Syn. ?ḳayar kusu.
ḳwaras ḳwaras, the same as [kwaruru] but vide under [gujiya].
kwardauḍa, vide [dauḍa].
kwari, a slender soft-wooded tree with long broad leaves, in ravines, sometimes called “Cabbage Tree.” (Etym. kwari = a quiver, because used for making quivers). Anthocleista nobilis, G. Don. (= A. Vogelii, Planch.) and A. parviflora, Baker (Loganiaceæ).
ḳwariya, the common calabash; vide under [duma].
kwarko (Kano), or kwarkoro, Argemone mexicana, Linn. (Papaveraceæ). “Yellow Mexican Poppy,” a common prickly poppy of fields and waste places near houses. Syn. haḳorin kada (from the Ful. name); ya (or ka) ḳi ruwan Allah (because essentially a dry-season plant, and because the glaucous leaves throw off rain or dew); (kada ka taḅa yaro is a Yoruba equivalent). The root is used for cotton spools, and as a stimulant by drummers, &c.
kwaruru, Voandzeia subterranea, Thouars. (Leguminosæ). The Bambarra Ground Nut. Syn. [gujiya], q.v. A species of ground bean cultivated like [geḍa] and like it developing its pods underground. It differs from geḍa in having 3-foliate leaves (4 leaflets in geḍa), and spherical usually one-seeded pods with variegated seeds. The allied Kerstingiella geocarpa, Harms. is cultivated in some districts in Nupé and the south. yaro da dariya = the seeds cracked and roasted (etym. from the gaping cracks); abakuru (Yoruba obokuru) = cooked ovoid cakes or balls with pepper, salt, &c. fried in oil (prepared preferably from kwaruru because it keeps better on a journey, &c.). lubatu = a kind of food made from kwaruru. (Etym. Yor. epa roro = round ground nut).
ḳwiwa or ḳwiya, Adenodolichos sp. nr. A. Auchietas, Harms. (Leguminosæ); a tall undershrub with 3-foliate leaves and slender straight branches used for tanka, &c.
ḳwododo, vide [ḳabdodo].