pacara

plural pacaras

1. A large tree of the mimosa family, Enterolobium contortisiliquum, which yields wood good for carpentry.

   ... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), Urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...

   1881, Ernest William White, Cameos from the Silver-land: Or, The Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, London: J. Van Voorst, page 44

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   Of the same family is the pacara, equally rapid in growth ; both produce a fruit which serves for making soap. The tatane, or palo amarillo, is a large mimosa, well suited for making furniture. Cedars, red as well as white, flourish in the warmer ...

   1885, Michael George Mulhall, Edward T. Mulhall, Handbook of the River Plate, Comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay: With Railway Map, page 8

   Growing with or near the sebil, we find the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...

   1886, Juan Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 247

   This region of the forest contains many magnificent trees and shrubs: the wild pepper, the nogal or walnut, the Algaroba, and the pacara. The shrubs all have either bipinnate or tripinnate leaves. One shrub has far more flowers upon it than ...

   1889, Leicester Literary, Philosophical Society, Transactions, page 171

   ... the tatane is golden yellow; the pacara is dark red; the molle is black-brown; the lapacho is green, gray and black; the guayabo is deep red, veined with black and yellow; the palo ribera is dark cinnamon with red veins; the guayacan is black ...

   1896, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 317

   The Wax Palm, Copemica cert/era, is wide-spread, and the Pacara, a huge Mimosa, is described as a tree of great size and beauty, yielding a fruit containing a large percentage of Saponine. Other useful trees in the Gran Chaco are Urunday, ...

   1904, Journal of the African Society, page 419

   Synonyms: timbo