English
juazeiro
Juazeiro comes from Portuguese juazeiro.
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentjuazeiro
- Englishearliest quotation 1984same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
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- Portuguesec. 1500–presentjuazeiro
- Englishearliest quotation 1984same form
Earliest quotation: 1984, Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World: “The police trotted out there, amid juazeiro trees with…”
Every English word from Portuguese juazeiro
Today it means
noun A small shrub, Sarcomphalus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Portuguese juazeiro / juazeiro