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1. accouri, n. View full entry 1824
...An agouti (genus Dasyprocta) or related animal....
2. anhinga, n. View full entry 1769
...Any bird of the genus Anhinga, esp. the American snake-bird, A. anhinga....
3. benab, n. View full entry 1867
...In Guyana, a shelter made of a framework of poles, covered with branches and leaves....
4. boiguacu, n. View full entry 1774
...A native Brazilian name of the Boa Constrictor or other large boa....
5. † boyuna, n. View full entry 1625
...A large black South American snake (not identified)....
6. caatinga, n. View full entry 1846
...In Brazil, a forest consisting of thorny shrubs and stunted trees....
7. Caboclo, n. View full entry 1816
...In Brazil: a westernized Amerindian; (also) a person of mixed Indian and black or Indian and white parentage....
8. caracoli, n. View full entry ?a1753
...A mixed metal or alloy formerly used by the natives of the Caribee Islands, and imitated by Europeans by mixing 6 parts of silver, 3 of copper, and 1 of gold. Chambers...
9. cassareep, n. View full entry 1832
...‘The inspissated juice of the cassava, which is highly antiseptic, and forms the basis of the West Indian pepper-pot’ (Treasury Bot.)....
10. cassiri, n. View full entry 1796
...An intoxicating liquor made in Guyana from fermented sweet potatoes....
11. charqui, n. View full entry 1758
...Beef prepared for keeping by cutting into thin slices and drying in the wind and sun; ‘jerked’ beef (the latter being a corruption of this word)....
12. cherimoya, n. View full entry 1736
...A small tree (Anona cherimolia), a native of Peru, with sweet-scented greenish flowers....
13. coaita, n. View full entry 1667
...The Red-faced Spider-monkey (Ateles paniscus) found in the woods of tropical South America, about 18 inches long, covered with long coarse hair of a glossy black. Also applied to other...
14. coati, n. View full entry 1676
...An American plantigrade carnivorous mammal of the genus Nasua (family Ursidæ), somewhat resembling the Civet and the Racoon, with a remarkably elongated flexible snout. ...
15. cocorite, n. View full entry 1796
...In full cocorite palm: a small South American palm, Maximiliana regia....
16. cundurango, n. View full entry 1871
...A Peruvian climbing shrub Gonolobus Cundurango, the bark of which was introduced into therapeutic use in 1871. According to the Sydenham Society's Lexicon, ten or twelve different barks...
17. Divi-divi, n. View full entry 1843
...The commercial name of the curled pods of Cæsalpinia coriaria, a tree found in tropical America and the West Indies; they were introduced to Europe from Caracas in 1768...
18. ebene, n. View full entry 1967
...A psychoactive powder made from a mixture of plant materials, esp. the bark and resin of trees of the genus Virola (family Myristicaceae), which is used as snuff...
19. eyra, n. View full entry 1860
...In full eyra cat. A wild cat, Felis yagouaroundi, in its red phase, found in an area from Argentina and Paraguay to southern Texas....
20. Garinagu, n. View full entry 1983
...The Garifuna people, considered collectively. Cf. Garifuna2....
