pacara

English

The tree.

Its fruit.

Etymology

From Quechua pacara.

Noun

pacara (plural pacaras)

1. A large tree of the mimosa family, Enterolobium contortisiliquum, which yields wood good for carpentry.

   Synonym: timbo

   • 1881, Ernest William White, Cameos from the Silver-land: Or, The Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, London: J. Van Voorst, page 44:

     ... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), Urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...

   • 1885, Michael George Mulhall, Edward T. Mulhall, Handbook of the River Plate, Comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay: With Railway Map, page 8:

     Of the same family is the pacara, equally rapid in growth ; both produce a fruit which serves for making soap. The tatane, or palo amarillo, is a large mimosa, well suited for making furniture. Cedars, red as well as white, flourish in the warmer ...

   • 1886, Juan Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 247:

     Growing with or near the sebil, we find the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...

   • 1889, Leicester Literary, Philosophical Society, Transactions, page 171:

     This region of the forest contains many magnificent trees and shrubs: the wild pepper, the nogal or walnut, the Algaroba, and the pacara. The shrubs all have either bipinnate or tripinnate leaves. One shrub has far more flowers upon it than ...

   • 1896, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 317:

     ... the tatane is golden yellow; the pacara is dark red; the molle is black-brown; the lapacho is green, gray and black; the guayabo is deep red, veined with black and yellow; the palo ribera is dark cinnamon with red veins; the guayacan is black ...

   • 1904, Journal of the African Society, page 419:

     The Wax Palm, Copemica cert/era, is wide-spread, and the Pacara, a huge Mimosa, is described as a tree of great size and beauty, yielding a fruit containing a large percentage of Saponine. Other useful trees in the Gran Chaco are Urunday, ...

   • 2017, Hendrika Fourie, Vaughan W. Spaull, Robin K. Jones, Mieke S. Daneel, Dirk De Waele, Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century, Springer, →ISBN, page 61:

     ... Originally described from roots of the pacara earpod tree (Enterolobium contortisiliquum) in China. Meloidogyne enterolobii was previously reported in SA as Meloidogyne mayaguensis Rammah and Hirschmann, 1988, and recorded from ...

Old Javanese

Noun

pacara

1. Alternative spelling of cara, pacara, upacara, upacāra

Further reading

• "pacara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.