jojoba

Borrowed from Spanish jojoba, from O'odham hohowi.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həˈhəʊbə/, /həʊˈhəʊbə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hoʊˈhoʊbə/, /həˈhoʊbə/, enPR: hō-hōʹbə, hə-hōʹbə

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• Hyphenation: jo‧jo‧ba

jojoba (plural jojobas)

1. A shrub native to the southwestern United States and to Mexico, Simmondsia chinensis: the only plant known to store liquid wax in its seed.
   • 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 195:

     The ground was bad – rocky and hard. That was why we used it for jojoba plants. The plants are tough. They donʼt need much.

• (Simmondsia chinensis): goat nut, deer nut, pignut, wild hazel, quinine nut, coffeeberry, gray box bush

• jojoba ester
• jojoba oil

• jujube

• jojoba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Simmondsia chinensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Simmondsia chinensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from O'odham hohowi. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): /xoˈxoba/ [xoˈxo.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -oba
• Syllabification: jo‧jo‧ba

jojoba f (plural jojobas)

1. jojoba (plant)
   • 1816, Agustín Pomposo Fernández de San Salvador, Los jesuitas quitados y restituidos al mundo:

     […] la Jojoba estimable por su eficacia para curar la supresion de orina y las heridas, facilitar el parto, y su azeyte poderoso contra el cancer, no dá fruto sino el año que en invierno cae alguna gran lluvia […]

     The jojoba [is] esteemed because of its efficacy in curing urine lack and wounds, and facilitating birth, and its oil is strong against cancer, and it does not give fruits if not in spring some great rain fell.

• → English: jojoba

• “jojoba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• jojoba on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es