algarovilla

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English

Noun

algarovilla (uncountable)

  1. The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), formerly used for tanning leather and as a dye.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for algarovilla”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)