单词 | roucou tree |
释义 | > as lemmasroucou tree 2. More fully roucou tree. The achiote, a tropical American shrub, Bixa orellana (family Bixaceae), bearing fruit from which the dye is obtained (see sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > other trees yielding dyes achiote1648 Campeachy tree1652 logwood1652 roucou1662 urucu1666 Morinda1754 berberine tree1861 kamachili1866 tanners' tree1884 β. α. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. i. i. 185 A Leaf of the Rocour-Tree.1756 T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. II. 167 Sir Robert Moray presented..7. An excellent colour made of the American Rocou-Tree, with a leaf of that tree.1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) V. 28 They painted all their bodies over with the juice of the rocou or arnotto, which gave them the appearance of a boiled lobster.1803 Monthly Mag. Nov. 314/1 The Spaniards were the first who cultivated the sugar-cane, indigo, rocoo, and ginger.1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India iii. 128 Scattered groups of Magnolias, or Rocu-trees, in full flower.1950 Amer. Anthropologist 52 345 His back was scarified.., and then rubbed with a decoction containing tobacco-juice, rocou-leaves (Bixa Orellana), and the seeds of red-peppers.1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar iii. 56 Achiote, as it is usually called (Mr. Gage calls it Achiotte) is called by Oviedo, and Clusius, Bixa; by the Natives of Brasile Vrucu, and Roucou in the Description of the Antilles. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 43 The Roucou is the same tree which the Brasilians call Urucu. 1716 Petiveriana i. 176 Maucaw, or Roucou-tree. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 254 The Roucou, or Arnotto Tree... All the seeds of this plant are covered with wax. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. viii. 281 This was a famous plant—Bixa Orellana, Roucou; and that pulp was the well-known Arnotta dye of commerce. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xiii. 375 Anatto... In the French colony of Guadeloupe, where roucou is extensively cultivated. 1962 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 75 336 Boil roucou leaves and to the tea add sapidillo seeds and wild coffee seeds. 2004 L. L. Schiebinger Plants & Empire ii. 78 (caption) A Carib woman points to the roucou tree, whose flowers yield a highly prized red dye. < as lemmas |
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