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mussoi bark en · NOUN

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of massoy bark
    • Rattans from Borneo, sandal-wood and bees'-wax from Flores and Timor, tripang from the Gulf of Carpentaria, cajputi-oil from Bouru, wild nutmegs and mussoi-bark from New Guinea, are all to be found in the stores of the Chinese and Bugis merchants of Macassar, along with the rice and coffee which are the chief products of the surrounding country. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 107: