canarium

In and around villages, except for an occasional sacred grove, most trees are useful species such as the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), canarium (Canarium schweinfurthii) and mango trees (Mangifera indica), many of which are planted.

Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic 2008

It is, however, very beautifully laid out, the streets, which are broad and well-kept, being lined by double rows of magnificent canarium trees or tamarinds, whose branches interlace high overhead in a canopy of green.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

Of augury in agricultural life we have some indication in the annual observance of the 'spring augury' (_augurium verniserum_) and the midsummer ceremony of the _augurium canarium_, which seems to have been

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

A sympathetic charm of a rather different character seems to survive in the ceremony of the _augurium canarium_, at which a red dog was sacrificed for the prosperity of the crop -- a symbolic killing of the red mildew (_robigo_); and again the slaughter of pregnant cows at the _Fordicidia_ in the middle of April, before the sprouting of the corn, has a clearly sympathetic connection with the fertility of the earth.

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

One of these occasions is when the canarium nut, so much used in native cookery, is ripe.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

First-fruits offered to the dead, 259; of canarium nuts offered to ghosts, 368 _sq.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

[600] A curious survival of divination from the agricultural period, which was taken over by the State, but not fixed to a day in the calendar, is the _augurium canarium_.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Bezanntjes. a) Hclothuria pTiysalig; b) Strombtjs canarium &c. Brzaanskuoop.

Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen Nemnich, Philipp Andreas, 1764-1822 1793