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‖ mengkuang|mɛŋˈkwæŋ|
[Malay.]
A tree belonging to one of the larger species of Pandanus, providing leaves that can be woven into matting, etc. Also attrib.
1900H. N. Ridley in Jrnl. Straits Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc. XXXIII. 170 Pandanus atrocarpus Griff. ‘Meng⁓kuang’. The biggest species here, often 40 feet high with very long leaves. 1908L. Wray in A. Wright 20th Cent. Impressions Brit. Malaya 235/3 Of late years a fairly large industry has sprung up in Negri Sambilan in the manufacture of mat hats... The finer are of Pandan leaves, and the coarser of Mengkuang leaves. 1935I. H. Burkill Dict. Econ. Products Malay Peninsula II. 1644 Such species [of Pandanus] as are used for matting are called by the Malays ‘mĕngkuang’. 1947R. O. Winstedt Malays 175 Dish covers are sometimes made of this mad plait, or they are made of strips of the white inner sheath of bamboo..stuck over a conical meng-kuang lining shaped like Chinese hats. 1954R. E. Holttum Plant Life Malaya ii. 23 The big swamp Pandan called Mengkuang, with trunks sixty feet or more high and leaves twenty feet long, rivals most palms in bulk. 1965C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari ii. 29 A patch of earth near the cooking fires was swept clean and laid with broad mengkuang leaves. 1972M. Sheppard Taman Indera 158 Coarser matting for everyday household use and sacking are made of mengkuang. Pandan is frequently dyed and woven into elaborate patterns. Mengkuang is more often used in its natural form. |