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▪ I. † molle Obs.
[a. Sp. molle, a. Quichua mulli; cf. F. molle ‘an Indian tree’ (Cotgr.).]
The Peruvian mastic-tree, Schinus molle, native of tropical America.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxx. 292 Molle is a tree of many vertues, which casteth foorth small boughes, whereof the Indians make wine. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1524 Lentisci Pecuani [? read Peruani] similis Molle dicta. The Indians Molle. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App. s.v., Indian Mastic, the name by which the Molle, or Peruvian Lentisk is sometimes called.
▪ II. molle, mollee
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