cascarilla
noun
the bitter, aromatic bark of a West Indian shrub, Croton eluteria, of the spurge family, used as a tonic.
cascarillas
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pluralof cascarilla.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
