Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tropical shrub or tree (Croton eluteria) native to the West Indies and northern South America, having a bark that yields an aromatic spicy oil used as a flavoring and fragrance.
- noun The bark of this plant.
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- noun A
euphorbiaceous West Indianshrub (Croton eleutheria). - noun The
aromatic bark of this shrub, formerly used as a gentletonic or mixed withtobacco forsmoking .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tobacco, cascarilla, sage and tonka bean together make it very bold and special.
Archive 2008-10-01 Ayala Sender 2008
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Tobacco, cascarilla, sage and tonka bean together make it very bold and special.
Tobacco and Saint-Germain-des-Prés Ayala Sender 2008
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She proceeded at random to read about cascarilla, furred tongue, the anus and its disorders, and anxiety.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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My own recipe of frankincense, styrax, and cascarilla bark.
Heart Song V.C. Andrews® 1997
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My own recipe of frankincense, styrax, and cascarilla bark.
Heart Song V.C. Andrews® 1997
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The sea-side balsam, or sweet wood (_Croton Eleuteria_), from which some cascarilla bark is obtained, grows in the Bahama Islands and
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It forms the cascarilla bark of commerce already spoken of.
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CASCARILLA BARK is obtained chiefly from the _Croton cascarilla_, a small shrub growing at St. Domingo, the Bahama Islands, and the
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This _cascarilla_ is formed by the trituration of eggshells; and the oval faces whitened with it resemble
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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The ladies of Matanzas seem to possess a great deal of beauty, but they abuse the privilege of powder, and whiten themselves with _cascarilla_ to a degree that is positively ghastly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
qroqqa commented on the word cascarilla
Stoughton, an earlier Dr Munyon or Father John, made and marketed an elixir of wormwood, germander, rhubarb, orange peel, cascarilla, and aloes. It was used to flavour alcoholic beverages and as a strong tonic for winter-weary folk.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album
(It came in a Stoughton bottle.)
July 10, 2008