"dika" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dikas [plural]
Etymology: Native West African name. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dika (countable and uncountable, plural dikas)
  1. (countable) A tree of species Irvingia gabonensis. Tags: countable Categories (lifeform): Malpighiales order plants
    Sense id: en-dika-en-noun-wgVimt87 Disambiguation of Malpighiales order plants: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
  2. (uncountable) A West African food made from the almond-like seeds of Irvingia gabonensis. Tags: uncountable Categories (lifeform): Malpighiales order plants
    Sense id: en-dika-en-noun-Cv~npr8p Disambiguation of Malpighiales order plants: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dika bread

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for dika meaning in English (2.1kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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