English Explanatory Dictionary

guaxima

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A plant of species Urena lobata, widespread in the tropics, or the useful fiber it yields.

Word forms

guaxima guaximas

Etymology

Said by Century to be from a Tupian word guazima, guajima. (Compare guanxuma, guanxima, sometimes encountered as names of a malva.)

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