pareira

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noun

Chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare.

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Meanings

nounpareira (usually uncountable, plural pareiras)

plural pareiras

  1. uncountableusuallyChondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare.

    Cissampelina, the intensely sweetish-bitter principle found in this body, is very like calumbin in some physical properties; yet we have been wont to associate other therapeutic ideas with pareira, than with calumba.

    1843, Samuel Thomson, “On the Vegetable Resources of the Edinburgh Pharmacopœia”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 60, page 167
  2. uncountableusuallyA tonic diuretic drug derived from various South and Central American plants.
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