mangoro, the name given to the mango, Mangifera indica, Linn. (Anacardiaceæ).
manta uwa, 1. A medicine given to a child at weaning, or to prevent a slave running away (etym. “forget mother”); the name is applied to several plants; (in Katagum the species was Crotalaria arenaria, R. Br. Leguminosæ, a low weed with small yellow flowers and inflated pods). 2. A name for some epiphytic orchids, e.g. Ansellia congoensis, Rodiges, &c. (etym. because growing on trees away from the ground). vide [muruchin bissa].
marafiya, vide [malafiya].
maraguwa, vide [ḳini].
marasiri, vide under [riḍi].
marga or malga, vide [gamma faḍa].
mariḳe, Anogeissus leiocarpus, Guill. et Perr. (Combretaceæ). A tree with small pale leaves and balls of whitish flowers; a good timber; it yields a soluble gum; the fruit is used as a vermifuge for horses, &c. “Chew-stick Tree.” ḍan marike (Katagum, &c.), Indigofera secundiflora, Poir. (Leguminosæ). A weed or low undershrub with pale pinnate leaves covered with a gummy glandular secretion.
marin kusu, Pupalia lappacea, Juss. (Amaranthaceæ); a straggling spiny weed of waste places, resembling [ḳaimin ḳadangare], q.v. (Etym. “mouse’s irons”).
marmare, a var. of [dawa], q.v.
marsa, a var. of kola nut; vide under [goro].