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pareira (usually uncountable, plural pareiras)
- Chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare.
1843, Samuel Thomson, “On the Vegetable Resources of the Edinburgh Pharmacopœia”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 60, page 167:Cissampelina, the intensely sweetish-bitter principle found in this body, is very like calumbin in some physical properties; yet we have been wont to associate other therapeutic ideas with pareira, than with calumba.
- A tonic diuretic drug derived from various South and Central American plants.
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