This term that already controls our Dictionary designates a shrub of dioeic nature originating from the deserts of Sonora and Arizona in northwestern Mexico and southwestern USA, ( simondsia chinensis or californica), shrub from which a liquid wax or oil highly valued since times is extracted by the American Indians of this area, the Tohono Oodham (desert people , in his language) from which the word jojoba also comes. This oil is obtained by pressing the seeds of this shrub.