QUEBRACHO
\kwɛbɹˈakə͡ʊ], \kwɛbɹˈakəʊ], \k_w_ɛ_b_ɹ_ˈa_k_əʊ]\
Definitions of QUEBRACHO
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties.
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A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties.
By Noah Webster.
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ke-brä'ch[=o], n. the bark of several hard-wooded South American trees--good in fever. [Port.,--quebrahacho, axe-breaker--quebrar, to break, hacha, facha, axe.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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