Meaning of guaxima | Babel Free

Definitions

A plant of species Urena lobata, widespread in the tropics, or the useful fiber it yields.

Examples

“From the liber^([sic]) of the guaxima (Urena lobata) are made excellent paper and the cordage and the vegetable wool, mentioned in another place⟳, which did not pass⟳ unobserved at the exhibition of Vienna.”

“… the possible development of the scheme to manufacture⟳ coffee bags from guaxima, botanical name⟳ Urena lobata. The attempt⟳ here has been to manufacture⟳ the bags from what is known as aranina, an upcountry species of the guaxima.”

“A large number⟳ of fibers, both wild and cultivated, are produced in Brazil. They include⟳ caroa, sisal, phormium, jute, ramie, flax, guaxima and many others. Jute is of special interest⟳ [...]”

“Production of kenaf in Thailand and India, and guaxima fiber in Brazil totaled 1.3 billion pounds in 1965, 9 percent more than in …”

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