OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 266

còrò papuwah

•  a plant.een plant.

Scientific name: Gynandropsis pentaphylla DC

Note: the finely ground stem is put in hot water drunk by women in childbirth. It is less correctly called Tsjorro boboa by Filet