According to Miklouho-Maclay, the inhabitants of the Maclay Coast of New Guinea store up the nuts of the Canarium commune between May and July.
It closely resembles oil of sweet almonds for which it, as well as the oil of Pili (Canarium commune, L.
The sap is used for waterproofing boats: Canarium ovatum.
Canarium luzonicum) used for caulking in the walling of small boats.
The canarium nuts, or Solomon Island almonds, had been ripe for a week, and Mr. Woodford had expressed a wish to taste them, but he was told that this was quite impossible till the offering to the ghost had been made.
In the same island, as in Florida, the new canarium nuts may not be eaten until the first-fruits have been offered to the ghosts.
M102) In Florida, one of the Solomon Islands, the canarium nut is much used in the native cookery, but formerly none might be eaten till the sacrifice of the first-fruits had been offered to the ghosts of the dead.
One of these occasions is when the canarium nut, so much used in native cookery, is ripe.
Sidenote: First-fruits of the canarium nuts sacrificed to ghosts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canarium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
