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‖ urucu|uːruːˈkuː|
Also 8 uruca, 9 uruku.
[a. Brazilian (Tupi) urucú anatta. Cf. roucou.]
†a. Anatta; = roucou 2. Obs.
b. The anatta-tree, Bixa orellana; = roucou 1.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 840 The women..are well faced, painted red with Vrucu, which growes in a cod like a beane. 1666J. Davies tr. Rochefort's Caribby Isles 43 The Roucou is the same tree which the Brasilians call Urucu. 1681Grew Musæum ii. §ii. i. 217 The Fruit of the Urucu. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Orleana, in the materia medica, the name of the arnotto, or uruca. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon I. 222 The red [tints are made] with the seeds of the Urucú, or anatto plant.
attrib.1894Nation (N.Y.) 14 June 451/3 A red oil made of the uruku-plant. |