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  • 2 This was, no doubt, what was called the danta-kashtha, or “dental wood,” mostly a bit of the/ficus Indicus/or banyan tree, which the monk chews every morning to cleanse his teeth, and for the purpose of health generally.

    A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

  • A collaborative group of university students organized to protect the danta, and to teach the community ways to protect it (people often eat tapir meat in Peten, a tasty exotic meat).

    Protection of La Danta 2008

  • Suddenly, just as we were about to embark, Ed. caught sight of a huge sacha-huagra (the Inca name, meaning "a large beast of the forest" for the tapir, or danta, as the Peruvians say, the largest pachyderm of the Amazon woods) swimming the river some five hundred yards above where we were, and making for our island.

    Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

  • (800-square-meter) Volta Lake has mahogany, odum, wawa, kusia, ceiba and danta trees.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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  • (i) inaan hantida ummadda (gaadiidka, xafiisyada dawladda, dhulka danta guud, khayraadka badda iyo maaliyadda dawladda) loo adeegsan dano xisbi u gaara.

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