(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:30:31

Za*chun" (?), n. Bot.

An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment.

J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

 

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