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Definition of Goora nut
1. Noun. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract.
Terms within: Cola Extract
Group relationships: Cola, Genus Cola
Terms within: Cola Nut, Kola Nut
Generic synonyms: Nut Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goora Nut
Literary usage of Goora nut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa by Richard Lander (1830)
"Her hair used to be carefully dyed with indigo, and of a rich and vivid blue;
her feet and hands stained with hen- nah and an extraction of the goora-nut, ..."
2. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1838)
"They have an extraordinary practice of staining the teeth with the acid of the
goora nut and indigo, by which a blue colour is produced ; a yellow dye is ..."
3. Medical History of the Expedition to the Niger During the Years 1841-2 by James Ormiston McWilliam (1843)
"He, however, offered to the officers sent to wait upon him palm wine, a kind of
beer, and the emblem of welcome, the goora nut. ..."
4. The Nut Culturist: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1896)
"goora nut.—See Cola nut. GORGON NUT.—See Fox nut. GROUNDNUT.—The small, globular
tubers of the dwarf three-leaved ginseng, Aralia trifolia, ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... Lios- tomus in и th u rus : more fully called Cape May goora-nut (gö'rä-nut), и.
Same as cola-nut. goody. goody-bread ..."
6. Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger by John Lander, Richard Lander (1854)
"... goora-nut, for which they have been to Gonja, a place only a few days' journey
from Accra. Gonja was till very recently a province of Ashan- tee, ..."
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