In a Kipling story about India, the word "oont" appeared.
Search for defintion = camel was in Kipling Glossary:
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/glossary.html
I noticed however, that it didn't contain the word "kelk"
which tsuwm found = foetid parsley. Sounds delicious.
Is called wild parsley in New Zealand. The world "foetid" is more apt, however, because it stinks when it's growing and it has a nauseatingly putrid stench about it when it's rotting. Even feral goats, renowned for their completely unfussy attitude to what is edible and what is not, won't touch it with a forty-foot barge pole.
Dear Capfka: if feral goats won't eat it, it must be pretty bad. A hundred years ago, mothers in New England used to hang asafoetid around kids necks as a talisman to protect them against childhood diseases.
asafetida or asafoetida
n.
5ME < ML asa (< Pers aza, gum) + L foetida, fem. of foetidus, FETID6 a bad-smelling gum resin obtained from various Asiatic plants (genus Ferula) of the umbel family: it was formerly used to treat some illnesses or, in folk medicine, to repel disease
Unta (u being pronounced oo) is the Indonesian for camel.
Burung unta (literally camelbird) is the Indonesian for ostrich.
Bingley