Meanings
- A small shrub, Sarcomphalus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.
Behind his private tent was a yard enclosed by barbed wire and shaded by the camp's only juazeiro tree.
2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5652 more examples
The police trotted out there, amid juazeiro trees with sharp-edged branches and thickets of velame that irritated their skins.
1984, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, London: Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa, published 2012, page 40Due to its drought resistance, juazeiro is very important economically for the northeast region of Brazil, and practically all parts of the plant are used by the population.
2021, “Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Wild Medicinal Plants of Piauí State-Brazil” (chapter 8), in Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, editors, Ethnopharmacology of Wild Plants, Boca Raton: CRC Press, →DOI, page 271
Origin
- Portuguesejuazeiro
- Englishjuazeiro
From Portuguese juazeiro.
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