Definition of Angostura

1. Noun. The bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters.

Exact synonyms: Angostura Bark
Generic synonyms: Bark

Definition of Angostura

1. Proper noun. The former name of Ciudad Bolivar, a town on the Orinoco. ¹

2. Noun. Angostura bitters (qualifier at Wikipedia) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Angostura

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Angostura

anglophile
anglophobe
anglophobia
anglophone
anglos
angola
angola pea
angolar
angon
angor
angor animi
angor pectoris
angora
angoras
angoricity
angostura
angostura bark
angosturas
angoumois grain moth
angoumois moth
angrecum
angrier
angries
angriest
angrily
angriness
angrinesses
angrite
angrites
angritic

Literary usage of Angostura

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Independence of the South-American Republics: A Study in Recognition and by Frederic Logan Paxson (1903)
"Bolivar moved his capital to the lower valley of the Orinoco, where he placed it in the city of St. Thomas de Angostura. The campaign of 1818 was undecisive ..."

2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"History—Angostura Bark is said to have been used in Madrid by Mutis as early as 17593 (the year before he left Spain for South America,) but it was ..."

3. Memoirs of Simon Bolivar by H L V Ducoudray Holstein (1829)
"The opinion that he did so, is supported by the following facts : At the end of July 1818, there arrived at Angostura a three masted vessel, from London, ..."

4. The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed by Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray (1869)
"This eastern part of the llanos, between Angostura and Barcelona, is similar to that already described on the passage from the valley of Aragua to San ..."

5. Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in by Simón Bolívar (1828)
"Arrival of Admiral Brion from Angostura with the Venezuelan Fleet—His ... IN the beginning of the month of October Admiral Brion arrived from Angostura, ..."

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