OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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Scientific name: pangium edule

Note: MRB (Esser 1927:55): pangi ‘a tree’ (PANGIUM EDULE); TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): pangi ‘a tree, the fruit of which is edible after soaking and pressing (otherwise poisonous), also processed for cooking oil; the tree is not cultivated’. [PPH *paŋi ‘[plant] PANGIUM EDULE REINW., poisonous squash’ (Charles, in Zorc 1971 2642)]