(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:07:56

Poon"ga oil` (?).

A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).

 

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