Citations:capororoca

English citations of capororoca

From Portuguese capororoca, perhaps from a Tupi word kaporo'roka.

(rare) A Brazilian tree.

• 1910, Brazil: Its Natural Riches and Industries (Brazil: Commissão d'expansão económica), page 267:

  The Capororoca (Myrsine gardneriana, D. C.), and the Aroeiras (Astronium and Schinus), (very plentiful species of vegetables in the State of Rio Grande do Sul), are largely used for tanning ordinary leather and sole leather there.

• 1924, Samuel James Record, Clayton Dissinger Mell, Amasa Stone Mather Memorial Publication Fund, Timbers of tropical America, page 487:

  The various Brazilian species are commonly known as "capororoca" and some of the trees are from 45 to 60 feet high and upward of three feet in diameter, but their timber is little used except for charcoal. Trees of this genus are common in ...

• 2014, David B. Scott, Jennifer Frail-Gauthier, Petra J. Mudie, Coastal Wetlands of the World: Geology, Ecology, Distribution and Applications, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 141:

  [...] grading landwards to a zone of the endemic shrub 'capororoca' (Myrsine parviflora) and giant leather-fern, Acrostichum danaeifolium.