Savanilla

See also: savanilla

English

Proper noun

Savanilla

1. A port city in Columbia.

Noun

Savanilla (plural Savanillas)

1. (obsolete) A Colombian variety of rhatany, formerly used medicinally; Krameria lappacea (formerly Krameria triandra).
   • 1876, Pharmaceutical Journal:

     The latter is the plant that yields the Savanilla rhatany, Krameria triandra, which yields the true officinal root, is not mentioned by Bennet, and appears consequently to be absent from Brazil.

   • 1879, Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs, page 82:

     The liquid filtered from the Savanilla sort and diluted with distilled water exhibits an intense violet colour, that from Peruvian rhatany a dingy brown ; the latter turns light red by alkalis. Thin sections of the Peruvian root assume a greyish hue […]

   • 1880, Minor Lectures; Wills' universal postal system, lecture 12:

     You will notice also that the bark of the Savanilla is firmly attached; the reason of this is due to the cells being densely filled with colouring matter. You can distinguish the Savanilla rhatany from the Peruvian by the latter being knotty, […]

2. (dated) A type of hide, useful for making leather products.
   • 1920, Lute E. Campbell, Campbell's Tea, Coffee and Spice Manual:

     Savanillas are sometimes sold as "Bucs" but never carry the heavy body for which the Bucaramangas are used.

   • 1922, Leather & Shoes, volume 63, page 65:

     Martas, but are only willing to pay 141/50. for regular stretched Savanillas, which importers are holding for 15c. River Plates apparently holding very steady, notwithstanding declines on wet-salted hides, but […]

   • 1922, Dun's Review, volume 30, page 64:

     Some booked Savanillas brought 15c., which is a basis of 16c. for mountains, understood to be for export. While this is %c. over the price last paid for regular stretched Savanillas, foreign buyers prefer booked hides.

Anagrams

• Villasana