Word.ws English Dictionary

pitcheri

pitcheri is the alternative form of pituri.

Meaning of pituri

Noun

pituri (uncountable)

  1. The prepared leaves of an Australian shrub, Duboisia hopwoodii, chewed as a stimulant by Aboriginal Australians; also the shrub itself.
    • The Australians, although unacquainted with true spirituous liquors, knew how to obtain a similar effect by chewing the twigs of the pituri bush.1931, Julius Lippert, translated by George Peter Murdock, The Evolution of Culture, London: George Allen and Unwin, page 194

Questions about pitcheri

What is pitcheri the alternative form of?
Pitcheri is the alternative form of pituri.

Words near pitcheri in the dictionary

  1. pitcher-bawd
  2. pitcher-bawds
  3. pitchered
  4. pitcherful
  5. pitcherfuls
  6. pitcheri
  7. pitcherless
  8. pitcherlike
  9. pitchers
  10. pitchers have ears
  11. pitchersful

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pitcheri (page history and authors); pituri (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pitcheri.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pitcheri. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.