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Lana

a kind of close-grained, tough wood, obtained from the Genipa americana, a tree of the Cinchona family, and a native of. British Guiana. fruit, SHIRE ation of which was the imperial British any. f close-grained, tough om the Genipa amerite Cinchona family, and ish Guiana. The fruit, called genipap, yields a pigment called rields a pigment called lana dye, used by the natives to stain their skins.

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