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terap|təˈræp|
Also tarap.
[a. Malay.]
An evergreen tree, Artocarpus elasticus, of the family Moraceæ, native to Malaysia and closely related to the bread-fruit tree, also, the large edible fruit of this tree or its fibrous bark, which is used to make string or cloth. Also attrib.
1839T. J. Newbold Straits of Malacca II. ix. 119 The cloth that encircles their loins is made from the fibrous bark of the Terap tree. 1900W. W. Skeat Malay Magic v. 225 A string of tĕrap bark to tie up the rice that is cut first. 1913L. W. W. Gudgeon Brit. N. Borneo x. 69 The fruit falls in all directions. If it is ‘durian’ or ‘tarap’, the size and weight of which are considerable, the Dusuns stand clear. 1935I. H. Burkill Dict. Econ. Products Malay Penin. I. 248 Every one knows the name ‘tĕrap’ which is applied to A[rtocarpus] elastica by Malays and Sakai. 1940E. J. H. Corner Wayside Trees of Malaya I. 654 The Terap is, undoubtedly, the commonest and best known of our wild species of Artocarpus. 1964M. E. D. Poore in Wang Gungwu Malaysia I. ii. 48 Such occur in..many species of terap or breadfruit (Artocarpus). |