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A kind of boil or tumour, so called because of the belief that the tamások-worm is the cause of it.

The caterpillar of a moth. It is very injurious to plants, often causing great havoc in rice fields. Also used as a verb. Humáy nga tinamások. Rice attacked by-, infested with-, tamások.

Worm-eaten, rotten, maggoty. (see torakón, tamások).

Infested with tamások-worms; maggoty, rotten, worm-eaten. (see torakón).

(B) The rotten-, maggoty-, worm-eaten-part of a fruit. May torák (Ginatorák) ang mángga nga diá. (May tamások (Gintamások) iníng páhò). This mango is maggoty.

(B) Worm-eaten, maggoty, rotten. Torakón nga mángga. (Tamasókon (Masakitón) nga páhò). A maggoty mango. Báklon ko ráad diáng mga mángga mo, pay búl-on gid ánay ang mga kímay, hanóg kag torakón. (Báklon ko kúntà iníng mga páhò mo, ápang kuháon gid ánay ang mga magágmay, lanóg kag tamasókon). I should like to buy these mangoes of yours, but all those that are very small, bruised or worm-eaten (rotten) must be removed first. (see tinamások, hanóg, lanóg-bruised; lanóng, tanóng-rotten-ripe).