Bot. [a. Arab. arjān, in Barbary pronounced argān.] An evergreen tree (N.O. Sapotaceæ), found in Morocco, furnishing a very hard, heavy wood, and an oil from its seeds.
1809. J. Jackson, Morocco, 123. The argan tree is the favourite resort of this bird.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, Argan-oil, expressed from the kernels of the Argania Sideroxylon.
