Jatropha
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- noun
- /ˈdʒætrəfə/
- Specialized
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Jatrofa
- The sheller is adjustable and can shell coffee berries, shea nuts, and jatropha seeds.
- Jatropha plants
- grow Jatropha
Examples
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In fact, oil from jatropha, a non-food plant that grows in wastelands, is widely used in India, where it is the main ingredient in the 15-20 percent biodiesel fuel that powers the trains running from New Delhi to Mumbai.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, many investors have planted jatropha (an oilseed-bearing shrub) and oil palm trees, both sources for biodiesel.
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The amount of carbon consumed by the current Flora is also probably much more than what will be consumed by the jatropha.
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In January this year, US-based SG Biofuels Inc. received $17 million in venture capital to fund research and international jatropha planting programs.
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It took only a few years for the jatropha dream to collapse after investors threw tons of money at the idea in 2007-2008, particularly in Africa.
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In part, it was the financial crisis, but the bigger problem was that we learned that while jatropha could indeed be grown on dry, sandy, low-value land, it did not produce enough seeds inside its fruit pods to make mass biofuel production possible.
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In fact, oil from jatropha, a non-food plant that grows in wastelands, is widely used in India, where it is the main ingredient in the 15-20 percent biodiesel fuel that powers the trains running from New Delhi to Mumbai.
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The highlands, where most Ethiopians live, are less vulnerable than the forested lowlands, where higher rainfall assists the cultivation of biofuel crops like oil palm and jatropha.
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The tropical plant jatropha is also an excellent, if underutilized, biofuel source.
Synonyms
A group of tropical plants used for medicine and to make oil
Compounds
- Specialized
A small tropical American tree whose seeds make poisonous oil and whose bark makes purple dye
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Jatropha comes from Greek parts iatros 'doctor' and trophe 'food' or 'nourish', because people once used these plants as medicine and to make useful oil. So the name links to their use as medicinal and oil-producing plants.