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pareiras

pareiras is the plural of pareira.

Meaning of pareira

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.

Questions about pareiras

What is pareiras the plural of?
Pareiras is the plural of pareira.

Words near pareiras in the dictionary

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

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