juazeiro

juazeiro

See also: Juazeiro

English

Etymology

From Portuguese juazeiro.

Noun

juazeiro

1. A small shrub, Ziziphus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.
   • 1984, Helen R. Lane, translating Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society 2012, p. 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 (eds.), 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.