cascarilla

American  

[kas-kuh-ril-uh] / ˌkæs kəˈrɪl ə /

noun

cascarillas plural

1. Also called cascarilla bark.  the bitter, aromatic bark of a West Indian shrub, Croton eluteria, of the spurge family, used as a tonic.

2. the shrub itself.

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cascarilla British  

/ ˌkæskəˈrɪlə /

noun

1. a West Indian euphorbiaceous shrub, Croton eluteria, whose bitter aromatic bark is used as a tonic

2. the bark of this shrub

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cascarillas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cascarilla

1870–75; < Spanish, equivalent to cascar ( a ) bark ( see cascara) + -illa < Latin -illa diminutive suffix

Example Sentences

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cascarilla cascarillas

The copper pot-distilled liquid comes in two varieties: Spice 94 is made using oak, cascarilla bark, green cardamom, allspice berries, lemon peel and grapefruit peel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2017

I asked the meaning of the word cascarilla, which I did not remember to have heard before.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

It forms the cascarilla bark of commerce already spoken of.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

This cascarilla is formed by the trituration of egg-shells; and the oval faces whitened with it resemble a larger egg, with features drawn on it in black and red.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward

Tobacco and cascarilla bark also flourish; and cotton is indigenous and was woven into cloth by the aborigines.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

The honest fellow feared lest his master might have caught again a touch of the old fever which had formerly attacked him in searching for cascarillas in the environs of Tipoani in Bolivia.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

He found the manufacture of spirits for the sugar-cane more profitable than digging for gold in the Ouitubamba or hunting for cascarillas along the Cconi.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various