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danta

The English word “danta” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A deciduous timber-yielding tree native to West and West Central Tropical Africa, Nesogordonia papaverifera.
  2. The wood of this tree.

Etymology

Borrowed from a certain Ghanaian vernacular name (compare Anyi danta, Sehwi danta).

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