A Japanese tree (Alchornea japonica) or the oil extracted from its seeds.
From Japanese 'abura' (oil) + 'giri' (tree or paulownia); a term combining the descriptive name for the oil-producing properties of the tree.
This tree produces a distinctive oil once important in traditional Japanese lacquerwork and cosmetics, showing how plant names encode practical knowledge about their uses.
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