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otenga

otenga noun: a flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.

Noun

otenga

  1. A flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.
    • It is prepared by pounding the root to powder, and mixing it up with the juice of the Otenga tree, to give it tenacity, and make it adhere to the arrow head.1836, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 5, page 196
    • One is Chelta (Dillenia indica), the common Assamese "Otenga", and the other Ping (Cynometra polyandra). Both these trees have hard, heavy woods […].1917, Quarterly Journal of the India Tea Association, Part I, p. 11

otenga meaning in Assamese

otenga in Assamese

otenga, elephant apple
ঔটেঙা outeṅa

Origin of otenga

Borrowed from Assamese ঔটেঙা (outeṅa).

Questions about otenga

What does otenga mean?
Otenga means a flowering evergreen tree of southeastern Asia, Dillenia indica, bearing edible fruits.
What is otenga in Assamese?
Otenga in Assamese is ঔটেঙা (outeṅa). See Otenga meaning in Assamese.
What part of speech is otenga?
Otenga is a noun.

Words near otenga in the dictionary

  1. otectomies
  2. otectomy
  3. otelixizumab
  4. Otematata
  5. otemell
  6. otenga
  7. Oteri
  8. Otero
  9. Otero County
  10. OTEs
  11. oteseconazole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: otenga (page history and authors); ঔটেঙা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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