See Also: indocile(dictionary)

tung (iou) and indocile (iou)


tung (iou)



tung noun. L19.
[Chinese tong (Wade-Giles t'ung).]
1. Each of three trees of the genus Aleurites, of the spurge family, A. fordii and A. montana, native to China, and A. montana, of Japan, cultivated for the oil from their seeds. Also tung tree. L19.
2. In full tung oil. A drying oil extracted from seeds of the tung tree and used in inks, paints, and varnishes. Also called wood-oil. E20.
Comb.: tung oil: see sense 2 above; tung tree: see sense 1 above; tung-yu [-ju:] [Chinese you oil] tung oil.

indocile (iou)



indocile adjective. E17.
[French, or Latin indocilis from docilis DOCILE, or from IN-3 + DOCILE.]
Not docile; not teachable or submissive, intractable.
indo'cility noun M17.