Malayan Tapir - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: malayan tapirMalayan tapir
A large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate Tapirus indicus of tropical America and Southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout...
VerbarKuda
The East Indian tapir See Tapir...
Bruang
The Malayan sun bear...
Gutta percha
A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago especially by the Isonandra Gutta syn Dichopsis Gutta It becomes soft and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water and on cooling retains its new shape It dissolves in oils and ethers but not in water In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc and it is extensively used for many economical purposes The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material...
Rambutan
A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum and closely related to the litchi nut It is bright red oval in shape covered with coarse hairs whence the name and contains a pleasant acid pulp Called also ramboostan...
Sago
A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick also as starch for stiffening textile fabrics It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu also from several cycadaceous plants Cycas revoluta Zamia integrifolia etc...
Occupation debt
Occupation debt, 'occupation debt' is defined as a debt payable by virtue of an obligation incurred during the occupation period and accruing due at any time. The term 'debt' is commonly used to describe liabilities which have an origin in contract, Muthupalaniapa Chettir v. Alagamai Achi, AIR 1961 Mad 438 (442). [Malayan Ordinance (42 of 1948)]...
Coryphodon
A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros and were allied to those animals but had short plantigrade five toed feet like the elephant...
Imparidigitate
Having an odd number of fingers or toes either one three or five as in the horse tapir rhinoceros etc...
Pachydermata
A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins including the elephant hippopotamus rhinoceros tapir horse and hog the pachyderms It is now considered an artificial group...
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