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Definition of Ramtil

1. n. A tropical African asteraceous shrub (Guizotia abyssinica) cultivated for its seeds (called ramtil, or niger, seeds) which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.

Definition of Ramtil

1. a tropical plant [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramtil

Literary usage of Ramtil

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

1. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... and in the manufacture of soap, though the cold-drawn oil is sometimes employed as a table oil. 3. Niger oil, guizot oil or ramtil oil (oleum ..."

2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"26-7 ramtil, the seeds of Guizotia ... In addition to these, the following are consumed to a large extent in India—lamp, ramtil, ..."

3. The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce by Heber Drury (1873)
"Lower Bengal. ECONOMIC USES.—Commonly cultivated in Mysore and tho Deccan, for the sake of the oil yielded by its seeds. The ramtil ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"THE OIL-SEEDS OF COMMERCE.—1. Linseed. 2. Rape Seed. 8. Ground Nut. 4. Cotton-Seed Oil. 5. Dodder Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Cress Seed, Niger Seed, ramtil, ..."

5. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"... for anointing their bodies, and for burning in oil-lamps, • Some of them are cultivated by the agriculturist, as the poppy, linseed, sesamum, ramtil, ..."

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