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  1. An erect spiny shrub of the gourd family, Acanthosicyos horrida, a native of southwest Africa, bearing edible globose fruits with a very thin, hard rind. The flesh of the fruit and the oily seeds form the principal food of the Hottentots and other native tribes of the region. The fruit is eaten fresh and is also made into a kind of cake, which with the seeds is kept until times of need. For a long time the seeds have been an article of export to Cape Colony under the name of butter-pits, where they are used as food by the colored peoples and by the whites as a substitute for almonds. See narras-plant.

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  1. Native name in southwest Africa.
 

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