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juazeiro

juazeiro noun: a small shrub, Sarcomphalus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.

Noun

juazeiro

  1. A small shrub, Sarcomphalus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.
    • 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 40
    • 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 565

Origin of juazeiro

From Portuguese juazeiro.

Phrases with juazeiro

Questions about juazeiro

What does juazeiro mean?
Juazeiro means a small shrub, Sarcomphalus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.
What part of speech is juazeiro?
Juazeiro is a noun.

Words near juazeiro in the dictionary

  1. Juarista
  2. Juaristas
  3. juarree
  4. Juaton
  5. Juayúa
  6. juazeiro
  7. Juazeiro do Norte
  8. juba
  9. Juba Arabic
  10. Juba dance
  11. Juba dances

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