juazeiro
See also: Juazeiro
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese juazeiro.
Noun
[edit]juazeiro
- A small shrub, Ziziphus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 40:
- The police trotted out there, amid juazeiro trees with sharp-edged branches and thickets of velame that irritated their skins.
- 2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress:
- Behind his private tent was a yard enclosed by barbed wire and shaded by the camp's only juazeiro tree.
- 2021, Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, editors, Ethnopharmacology of Wild Plants:
- Due to its drought resistance, juazeiro is very important economically for the northeast region of Brazil, and practically all parts of the plant are used by the population.