Gorli

Quick meaning: Gorli is a noun meaning A tropical shrubby tree (Caloncoba echinata, formerly Oncoba echinata) with small white flowers and inedible greenish-yellow berries, used both as an ornamental shrub and for medicinal purposes.

Meaning

A tropical shrubby tree (Caloncoba echinata, formerly Oncoba echinata) with small white flowers and inedible greenish-yellow berries, used both as an ornamental shrub and for medicinal purposes.

Example Sentences

Gorli (Caloncoba echinata) is known for its characteristic small whitish flowers, borne in the axils of the leaves, and in clusters on common stalks, which are a few millimeters long.

Another small group has received the ethyl esters of the fatty acids of the oil expressed from the seed of the gorli tree, which contains more chaulmoogric acid and less hydnocarpic acid than does chaulmoogra oil . From a chemical standpoint, gorli oil should be a fair substitute for chaulmoogra oil in case of a shortage of the latter.

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