juazeiroとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Portuguese juazeiro.

名詞

juazeiro

1. A small shrub, Sarcomphalus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.
   • 1984, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, London: Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa, 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, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 565:

     Behind his private tent was a yard enclosed by barbed wire and shaded by the camp's only juazeiro tree.

   • 2021, “Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Wild Medicinal Plants of Piauí State-Brazil” (chapter 8), in Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, editors, Ethnopharmacology of Wild Plants, Boca Raton: CRC Press, →DOI, page 271:

     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.