juazeiro

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English

Etymology

From Portuguese juazeiro.

Noun

juazeiro

  1. 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.