tagete means synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).
Etymology
Apparently back-formed from translingual Tagetes, taking it to be plural.
noun
- Synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).“The wound was washed with the juice of a young green coconut, sutured with a fine coconut fibre using the sharpened wing bone of a flying fox and then dressed with a "tagete" leaf over which was laid the outer layer of a banana flower. The whole was then sealed from the air with a mixture of pepper, lime and young betel nut chewed together. Mrs. Parkinson said she knew a man who had lived for thir”