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pareira

pareira noun: chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare.

Noun

pareira (usually uncountable, plural pareiras)

  1. (usually) Chondrodendron 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. (usually) A tonic diuretic drug derived from various South and Central American plants.

Forms of pareira

pluralpareiras

Words formed from pareira

  • false pareira

Questions about pareira

What does pareira mean?
Pareira means chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare.
What part of speech is pareira?
Pareira is a noun.
What is the plural of pareira?
The plural of pareira is pareiras.

Words near pareira in the dictionary

  1. pareidolia
  2. pareidolias
  3. pareidolic
  4. pareil
  5. pareils
  6. pareira
  7. pareiras
  8. pareirine
  9. Pareja
  10. Parejas
  11. Parekh

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