Goa powder

English

Etymology

So called from Goa, on the Malabar coast, where it was shipped from Portugal.

Noun

Goa powder (countable and uncountable, plural Goa powders)

  1. araroba; a bitter powder found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine

Translations

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 Goa powder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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