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Goa (iou)



Goa noun1. L17.
[A district on the west coast of India, or its seaport (now Panaji).]
Used attrib. to designate things found in or associated with Goa.
Goa ball = Goa stone below. Goa bean (the seed of) a twining leguminous plant of tropical Asia and Africa, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, grown esp. in SE Asia for its edible roots and four-winged seed-pods. Goa butter = KOKUM. Goa powder a bitter yellowish powder obtained from cavities in the wood of the Brazilian araroba-tree, containing the drug chrysarobin and used to treat skin diseases; also called araroba. Goa stone (obsolete exc. Hist.) an amalgam of fever remedies in a hard ball.