Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
anime , 3. - noun The tree which yields courbaril resin or anime. See
Hymenæa .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
animé , n.
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- noun dated
anime (resin from Hymenaea courbaril)
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- noun West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood
Etymologies
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Examples
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The pods of the West India locust tree, _Hymenæa courbaril_, also supply a nutritious matter.
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The mammee-tree and the genipa, * with large and shining leaves, raise their branches vertically towards the sky; whilst those of the courbaril and the erythrina form, as they extend, a thick canopy of verdure.
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The trunks of the trees are everywhere concealed under a thick carpet of verdure; and if we carefully transplanted the orchideae, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree, * we should cover a vast extent of ground.
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This painting is covered with a varnish of algarobo, which is the transparent resin of the Hymenaea courbaril.
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India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East but one of a different genus from whose white bark flows a red blood-like juice.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East (_Draccena_), but one of a different genus (_Crotori_), from whose white bark flows a red blood-like juice.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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The trunks of the trees are everywhere concealed under a thick carpet of verdure; and if we carefully transplanted the orchideae, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree, * (* Ficus nymphaeifolia.) we should cover a vast extent of ground.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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This painting is covered with a varnish of algarobo, which is the transparent resin of the Hymenaea courbaril.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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_courbaril_, the mahogany, the _tedre-à-caillou_, the iron - wood ... but as well enumerate by name all the soldiers of an army!
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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[* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places.
knitandpurl commented on the word courbaril
"–ril is not an expected word-ending. There are probably fewer than a dozen words in English ending in –ril. Most are unusual words, such as umbril and courbaril. Only four – April, Avril, peril, and nostril – are at all common."
David Crystal, By Hook or By Crook p 200
December 20, 2008
mollusque commented on the word courbaril
Probably because it's rarely used, but doesn't look strange, -ril is used in the brand names of a number of drugs (Bovril, Mellaril, Restoril, Zestril).
Even excluding names of drugs, there are more than a dozen words ending in -ril. Cyril and tendril are familiar, and aril, fibril and tendril are not too arcane. Maril, nombril, tumbril, and zoril are a bit more obscure. How about Shakepeare's Goneril and Tolkien's Andúril and mithril?
December 20, 2008
sionnach commented on the word courbaril
Though the 'vril' in Bovril has its own bizarre origin.
December 21, 2008