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‖ dika|ˈdaɪkə|
[W. African name.]
In dika-bread, a vegetable substance somewhat resembling cocoa, prepared from the fruit of a West African species of mango-tree (Mangifera gabonensis). dika-fat, dika-oil, the fatty substance of dika-bread.
1859Pharmac. Jnl. Ser. ii. I. 308 Mr. P. L. Simmonds introduced to the notice of the meeting a specimen of Dika bread from Gaboon, on the West Coast of Africa. 1863–72Watts Dict. Chem. II. 330 The fruit, which is about as large as a swan's egg, contains a white almond having an agreeable taste. These almonds, when coarsely bruised and warm-pressed, form dika-bread, which has a grey colour, with white spots, smells like roasted cocoa and roasted flour..and is greasy to the touch. Dika-bread contains a large quantity of fat. 1888W. T. Brannt Anim. & Veget. Fats 320 Dika oil, oba oil, or wild mango oil is obtained from..a tree indigenous to the west coast of Africa. |