quebracho
Americannoun
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any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
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a tree, Aspidosperma quebrachoblanco, of the dogbane family, yielding a medicinal bark.
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the wood or bark of any of these trees.
noun
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either of two anacardiaceous South American trees, Schinopsis lorentzii or S. balansae, having a tannin-rich hard wood used in tanning and dyeing
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an apocynaceous South American tree, Aspidosperma quebrachoblanco, whose bark yields alkaloids used in medicine and tanning
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the wood or bark of any of these trees
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any of various other South American trees having hard wood
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of quebracho
First recorded in 1880–85; from South American Spanish, variant of quiebracha, quiebra-hacha literally, “(it) breaks (the) hatchet”; see quebrada, hatchet
Example Sentences
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Paraguay wants the Chaco because the district is larger than the rest of their country and its jungles contain great growths of the quebracho tree, whose bark yields 30% tannin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cattle had been slaughtered or driven away; production of quebracho extract, an export staple used in tanning, had dropped.
From Time Magazine Archive
In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests.
From Time Magazine Archive
The delegation that went to Buenos Aires suggested lowering the tree-felling tax to cut costs so that quebracho users would buy for inventory, thereby absorbing some of the unemployed in the quebracho industry.
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Its forests contain many species of trees of great economic value; among them is the quebracho, which is exported for the tannin which it contains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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