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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The plum-like fruit of Parinarium laurinum, a rosaceous tree of the Fiji islands. The kernels are beaten up into a cement of the consistency of putty, which is used for stopping holes in canoes, fixing spear-heads to the shafts, etc.
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