tagete

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tagete

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Apparently back-formed from translingual Tagetes, taking it to be plural.

noun tagetes

Synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”). The wound was washed with the juice of a young green coconut, sutured with a fine coconut fibre using the sharpened wing bone of a flying fox and then dressed with a "tagete" leaf over which was laid the outer layer of a banana flower. The whole was then sealed from the air with a mixture of pepper,
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@misc{tagete_2026,
  title = {tagete},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tagete},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}