Jaborandi Definition

jăbə-răn-dē, -răndē
jaborandis
noun
The dried leaflets of various South American plants (genus Pilocarpus) of the rue family, that yield the alkaloid pilocarpine.
Webster's New World
The dried leaves of any of these plants.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Jaborandi

Noun

Singular:
jaborandi
Plural:
jaborandis

Origin of Jaborandi

  • Portuguese American Spanish from Tupí one that spits

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Portuguese jaborandi

    From Wiktionary

Jaborandi Sentence Examples

  • The forest products of the state include fine woods, rubber, ipecacuanha, sarsaparilla, jaborandi, vanilla and copaiba.

  • The best known of these are sarsaparilla, ipecacuanha, cinchona, jaborandi and copaiba; vanilla, tonka beans and cloves; Brazil-wood and anatto (Bixa orellana); india-rubber and balata.

  • Of the medicinal plants, the best-known products are ipecacuanha., sarsaparilla, copaiba, jaborandi and cinchona, but this is only a part of the list.

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