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Definition of Araroba
1. Noun. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
Definition of Araroba
1. n. Goa powder.
Definition of Araroba
1. a Brazilian tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Araroba
Literary usage of Araroba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... m. instrument for replacing the prolapsed umbilical cord Apotheker-Zeichen, n.
pharmaceutical symbol araroba, ..."
2. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... a substance found deposited in the wood of Vouacapoua araroba, a Brazilian
tree of the nat. ord. Leguminosa?. It is commonly misnamed ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"Telling him in reply that in Brazil the popular remedy for the cure of such
cutaneous affections was the araroba powder, known in the other provinces of the ..."
4. Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Chemie und Verwandter Theile anderer by Justus Liebig, Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Will, Adolph Strecker, Alexander Nikolaus Franz Naumann, August Laubenheimer, Friedrich Bernhard Fittica, Guido Bodländer, Julius Tröger, Emil Baur (1877)
"EM Holmes (1) hält ebenfalls araroba- und Ooa powder für identisch, in beiden
gelang es ihm reichlich ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Crude araroba was examined by Attfield in 1875 (Pharm. ... Though sometimes
administered internally as a purgative, araroba powder is used in medicine ..."
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