jagua
IPA: dʒˈægwʌ
noun
- A tree of species Genipa americana, native to the tropical forests of North and South America, as well as the Caribbean; genipap.
- The oval-shaped fruit of this tree; genipap.
- (uncountable) The extract of this fruit, used as a dye for temporary body art and tattoos that stain the upper layer of the skin.
- Ellipsis of jagua palm, also called inajá, Attalea maripa. [Attalea maripa, a large palm of tropical South America.]
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Examples of "jagua" in Sentences
- My new literary agent thought she might be able to sell my jagua book but self-publishing was my preferred path.
- They harvest the jagua fruit from which we make our all-natural black temporary tattoo product, the Earth Jagua Gel.
- (They harvest the jagua fruit from which we make our all-natural black temporary tattoo product, the Earth Jagua Gel.)
- It's a little soon to tell if it will be as popular as my first book -- right now, jagua tattoos are still a fairly obscure commodity.
- The vegetation of the small secondary stands consists primarily of species of "Juan Primero" (Simaruba glauca), "anón de majagua" (Lonchocarpus pentaphyllus) and "jagua" (Genipa americana).
- We there find in the plains groups of heliconias and other scitamineae with large and glossy leaves, bamboos, and the three palm-trees, the murichi, jagua, and vadgiai, each of which forms a separate group.
- How diverse, yet equally graceful, are the aspiring branches of the jagua and the drooping foliage of the cocoa, the shuttlecock-shaped crowns of the ubussú and the plumes of the jupati, forty feet in length.
- It has palmate leaves, and has no relation to the palm-trees with pinnate and curled leaves; to the jagua, which appears to be a species of the cocoa-tree; or to the vadgiai or cucurito, which may be assimilated to the fine species
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