guaxima

== English == === Etymology === Said by Century to be from a Tupian word guazima, guajima. (Compare guanxuma, guanxima, sometimes encountered as names of a malva.) === Noun === guaxima (plural guaximas) A plant of species Urena lobata, widespread in the tropics, or the useful fiber it yields. 1907 July-September, George E. Anderson, Brazilian fibers, in Monthly Consular and Trade Reports, numbers 322-324, page 114: [...] 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. 1966, Department of Agriculture - appropriations for 1967 - Hearings before the US House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies: Production of kenaf in Thailand and India, and guaxima fiber in Brazil totaled 1.3 billion pounds in 1965, 9 percent more than in [...] ==== Hyponyms ==== aranina, aramina === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “guaxima”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes II (D–Hoon), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === guaxuma, guanxuma, guanxima, guaximba, uacima aguaxima, guainxuma, uaxima, uaicima (dated) guacima, uaissima, guachima (obsolete) guaxiúma (rare) guachuma, uassima (rare, obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Tupi gûaxima. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: gua‧xi‧ma === Noun === guaxima f (plural guaximas) guaxima (Urena lobata, a flowering plant of the tropics sometimes grown for its fibre) Synonyms: guaxima-roxa, aramina, malva, carrapicho sida (any of the flowering plants of the genus Sida) Synonyms: vassourinha, relógio ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “guaxima”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “guaxima”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026