makula : [nt.] bud; a knob.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]

Makula [cp. Sk. makula] 1. a bud (Hardy in Index to VvA gives "Mimusops elengi" after BR) Th 2, 260; Vv 4526; J i.273; ii.33; iv.333; v.207 (makuḷa), 416; Vism 230 (ḷ); 256 (paduma˚); VvA 177 (kaṇavīra˚), 194 (makuḷa), 197 (id.); VbhA 228, 239 (where Vism 256 has makulita, & KhA 53 mukulita). -- 2. a knob J i.31; ii.90; Vism 253 (kandala˚). -- 3. v. l. at Nd2 485 B for pakulla (=pakuṭa).

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