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Meaning of jojoba



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

jojoba
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It is the common name of a plant and its fruits. From it is extracted a very desired oil. Its scientific name is Simmondsia chinensis and belongs to the family Simmondsiaceae (formerly considered of the family Buxaceae). It is the only plant that produces liquid wax.

  



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felipe lorenzo del rio

This term that already controls our Dictionary designates a shrub of dioeic nature originating from the deserts of Sonora and Arizona in northwestern Mexico and southwestern USA, ( simondsia chinensis or californica), shrub from which a liquid wax or oil highly valued since times is extracted by the American Indians of this area, the Tohono Oodham (desert people , in his language) from which the word jojoba also comes. This oil is obtained by pressing the seeds of this shrub.

  










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