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guaxima

guaxima noun: a plant of species Urena lobata, widespread in the tropics, or the useful fiber it yields.

Noun

guaxima (plural guaximas)

  1. A plant of species Urena lobata, widespread in the tropics, or the useful fiber it yields.
    • From the liber^([sic]) of the guaxima (Urena lobata) are made excellent paper and the cordage and the vegetable wool, mentioned in another place, which did not pass unobserved at the exhibition of Vienna.1876, The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, page 49
    • … the possible development of the scheme to manufacture coffee bags from guaxima, botanical name Urena lobata. The attempt here has been to manufacture the bags from what is known as aranina, an upcountry species of the guaxima.1907 July-September, George E. Anderson, Brazilian fibers, in Monthly Consular and Trade Reports, numbers 322-324, page 114

Examples of guaxima in a sentence

  • They include caroa, sisal, phormium, jute, ramie, flax, guaxima and many others.1947, Britain Bragunier Robinson, Tallmadge Bergen, Statuts of the Fiber Plant Industry in Latin America, page 25:
  • Production of kenaf in Thailand and India, and guaxima fiber in Brazil totaled 1.3 billion pounds in 1965, 9 percent more than in …1966, Department of Agriculture - appropriations for 1967 - Hearings before the US House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the...

Forms of guaxima

pluralguaximas

Origin of guaxima

Said by Century to be from a Tupian word guazima, guajima. (Compare guanxuma, guanxima, sometimes encountered as names of a malva.)

Questions about guaxima

What does guaxima mean?
Guaxima means a plant of species Urena lobata, widespread in the tropics, or the useful fiber it yields.
How do you use guaxima in a sentence?
They include caroa, sisal, phormium, jute, ramie, flax, guaxima and many others.
What part of speech is guaxima?
Guaxima is a noun.
What is the plural of guaxima?
The plural of guaxima is guaximas.

Words near guaxima in the dictionary

  1. guaver
  2. guavers
  3. Guaviare
  4. guavinoside
  5. guavinosides
  6. guaxima
  7. guaximas
  8. Guay
  9. guayaba
  10. guayabas
  11. guayabera

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