guaxima

词形变化

guaximas 复数 guaximas

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A plant of species Urena lobata, widespread in the tropics, or the useful fiber it yields.

    … the possible development of the scheme to manufacture coffee bags from guaxima, botanical name Urena lobata. The attempt here has been to manufacture the bags from what is known as aranina, an upcountry species of the guaxima.

    Production of kenaf in Thailand and India, and guaxima fiber in Brazil totaled 1.3 billion pounds in 1965, 9 percent more than in …

词源

Said by Century to be from a Tupian word guazima, guajima. (Compare guanxuma, guanxima, sometimes encountered as names of a malva.)

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