An African tree or a cooking ingredient from Africa; sometimes refers to sesame or other oil seeds (regional term).
From African language sources, possibly Yoruba or other West African languages where similar words exist for seeds and food plants.
This word shows up in historical trade documents and colonial records—it represents the many plant names that got lost when European languages took over, but the plants themselves were incredibly important.
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