imbuzeiro
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Portuguese imbuzeiro.
Noun[edit]
imbuzeiro (plural imbuzeiros)
- The hog plum, Spondias mombin, native to the tropical Americas.
- 1819, Robert Southey, chapter XLIV, in History of Brazil, 3rd part, London: […] [William Pople] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 757:
- Travellers upon this journey have sometimes perished for thirst, and sometimes owed their lives to the Imbuzeiro, … a remarkable tree, with which bountiful Providence has blessed the most arid regions of Brazil: bulbs, about a palm in diameter, and full of water, like water-melons, are attached to its shallow roots.
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 289:
- Rudino sees the albino girl, still sitting on the ground, and two black vultures at the top of an imbuzeiro, clearing their throats like old men.