Definition of Jinjili

1. a type of sesame [n -S] - See also: sesame

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jinjili

jinglingly
jingly
jingo
jingoes
jingoish
jingoism
jingoisms
jingoist
jingoistic
jingoistically
jingoists
jingoize
jingoized
jingoizing
jings
jinjili (current term)
jinjilis
jink
jinked
jinker
jinkers
jinkier
jinkies
jinkiest
jinking
jinks
jinky
jinn
jinnee
jinnees

Literary usage of Jinjili

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Province of Burma: A Report Prepared on Behalf of the University of Chicago by Alleyne Ireland (1907)
"Under vegetable oils the three principal items are earth-nut oil, til, or jinjili, and cocoanut oil. The first is a product of the earth-nut, ..."

2. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"There is good reason for believing that a considerable portion of the olive oil of commerce is but the jinjili, or the ground nut, oil of India, ..."

3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... jinjili (sesamum), seed, silk goods, raw sugar, pickled tea, and timber. The total value of trade with British Burma, for the three years ending 1881, ..."

4. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera, Jerome Beers Thomas (1901)
"... Indo-Eng. (Benne Oil, Til Oil, jinjili Oil.) USES.—The leaves are emollient and in. the Philippines, India and the Southern States of North America they ..."

5. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1893)
"... in soap manufacture, and as a lamp oil; From 80000 to 90000 gallons of the oil are shipped from India annually under the name of Til or jinjili oil, ..."

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