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unemployment benefit (oh)



BrE unem'ployment .benefits/compen.sation AmE n [U]
money paid regularly by the government to people who have no job
on unemployment benefit
(=be getting unemployment benefit)
::people on unemployment benefit

mangrove (medicine)


mangrove


1. <botany> The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. Mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.

The fruit has a ruddy brown shell, and a delicate white pulp which is sweet and eatable. The bark is astringent, and is used for tanning leather. The black and the white mangrove (Avicennia nitida and A. Tomentosa) have much the same habit.

2. <zoology> The mango fish.

Origin: Malay manggi-manggi.

Source: Websters Dictionary